The foundation is in place, and now we have to get to work.

Never ask for approval in your work. Life is your own, inspiration is your own, you create alone, and the results are your own - and that's good enough.

An ego should be like a warm breeze, never seen, just mildly sensed.

Everything in life belongs to God. Our purpose has already been mapped out.

If you are happy, you are a geezer.

If you have used colour throughout most of your artistic life, try just black and white... it will take your painting to another dimension where tone and form in all its permutations reign supreme.

History reveals that left-brain people have been creating art for a long time now.

The mark of genius is consistency. Do we hear of naive genius piano players? If anyone knows of one, try listening to it for an hour.

The process of painting offers an infinite array of possibilities. The closer in unification to just one of those, the better the painting becomes.

I just wanted to see my people smile. Brazillian people suffer so much. I just wanted them to smile

Sometimes it is best to burn paintings that just don't burn.

Mirror reflects your outer beauty

Don't you wish we all lived in black light.... for one thing, it would mean an end to toothpaste as we know it

Miracle is a misunderstood reality.

Be honest about what you see, get out of the way and let the story reveal itself

Education is an organic necessity of a human being.

Our Lady listens attentively to what God wants, ponders what she doesn't fully understand and asks about what she doesn't know. Then she gives herself completely to doing the divine will.

The way to keep yourself from making assumptions is to ask questions.

[Donald Trump] can do it [build the wall] by executive order by just re-programming money within the within the Immigration Service.

I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.

Enunciation, diction, all that stuff. None of that is in my personality.