The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life’s terms

Whether I'm running, working, relating, parenting, learning - whatever I'm doing, I want to surround myself with people who push me.

Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

Such labour'd nothings, in so strange a style, Amaze th' unlearn'd and make the learned smile.

It is not size that counts in business. Some companies with $500,000 capital net more profits than other companies with $5,000,000. Size is a handicap unless efficiency goes with it.

I wanna be a president for everyone in America. That's my goal, this what I will do, that's what I've done in my past.

The listener is the midwife in the difficult birth of the word.

Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing.

Women will always pay the price for love, that is why God makes us so much stronger than men.

The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.