To play is to listen to the imperative inner force that wants to take form and be acted out without reason.

It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.

When you have done your best, confronted your fear of committing to color and form, and dared to step over the threshold into the unknown, you will invariably find your own voice.

Painting for process is the visual equivalent of journal writing, done not for the sake of being seen or published, but purely for the telling itself.

If you do not listen to your intuition, it will stop talking to you. Your intuition is like a sensitive friend. If you question it, censor it, judge it, it gets hurt and becomes silent.

Painting is just a tool; it is nothing in itself. What counts is how you do it.

Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.

Chaos is the soul of creation. It plows the ground of intuition. Without chaos, nothing will grow.

You do not use art as a means to an end, but as a way to inhabit and explore the present. Right and wrong fade away; you recover your sense of what is authentic in you.

If you listen inside, the brush will want to run toward a color. What you really need and want is very close, and the brush goes to it quickly if you don't think.

When you set aside the mantle of control in the painting process, images arise from ancient layers of the psyche.

Heaven’s Tao is impartial, yet those who follow its compassionate waywill always be nourished

Be what ya is, 'cause if ya be what you ain't, ya ain't what ya is.

I think most people would be surprised at the length of the day whilst you're campaigning and then the variety of things that you do and you're asked to do.

We create ying and yang, yes and no, plus and minus.

Create a friendly atmosphere on the inside and outside. Live Friendly. Be a friendly person on the inside. Have the attitude it takes to be smiling internally first.

But you know the second month I was here I put out a healthy lifestyles directive. The pundits will say it was because we were sued. Well that's what they say. It was never about that.

There are two phases to a movie. First you shoot the movie, and then you make the movie. Generally, post-production is longer than filming.

If one uses music that one does not really love, then one will not succeed in making it one's own.

The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease.