What's the use? The people are too stupid. They do not understand.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

Faith in God gives boundless hope.

If you’re looking for family entertainment, don’t study history or prehistory.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Despair doubles our strength.

...the very basics of photography [can] be potent and strange. So why not make pictures about the medium itself and see where they would take me?

Guy Lafleur said "Each of us has only one past but there are many futures".

Be careful of the ones that always wanna get you high, cause when the time comes, that one'll let you die.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged - debating - helped shape my interests in public policy.