The successful painter is continually painting still life.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Whatever mistake you have made about who you are is temporary. Your true identity has remained untouched. You have never sinned against it or affected it in any way except to lose touch with it.

How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem, at a distance of a few million miles.

A woman is a lot like a refrigerator. Six feet tall, 300 pounds...it makes ice.

If all the world Should in a pet of temp'rance, feed on pulse, Drink the clear stream, and nothing wear but frieze, Th' All-giver would be unthank'd, would be unprais'd.

I don't reflect much, unless I'm talking to the media. I have more of a "Forward, march!" kind of attitude.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

Listen with your heart, you will understand.

A good leader leads from the front. Don't get stuck in the office. Get out, meet people and listen to their stories.

Science alone of all the subjects contains within itself the lesson of the danger of belief in the infallibility of the greatest teachers of the preceding generation.

I think the Matrix effect is over-used and I don't do it anymore.