The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.

If we don't have a sense of humor, we lack a sense of perspective

Common objects become strangely uncommon when removed from their context and ordinary ways of being seen.

If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

They have their big, ever-changing egos, but none has a self, a core, a sense of identity.

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

Gratitude weighs heavy on us only when we no longer feel it.

They shall beat their swords into ploughshares and their spears into pruninghooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more.

War... is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.

TV is the rat race of the century.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

And in which we say that life is eternal but continue to struggle to survive.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!