When you've just done it, you're not sure. But when you've sat with it for a couple of hours and you don't want to do anything more to it, that's a great feeling. It can stand on its own two feet.

It's such a crass idea - you're either in love or out of love.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.

It's very easy to say, 'I could have done that,' after someone's done it. But I did it. You didn't. It didn't exist until I did it.

I think as an artist you have to reinvent yourself every day.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

You've really got to get down on the floor with yourself and get low in order to make great art. I think you've just got to accept who you are and do the most unbelievable things.

I sometimes feel that I have nothing to say and I want to communicate this.

I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer.

I love color. I feel it inside me. It gives me a buzz.

I know what ails you.

Have an attitude of positive expectation.

You can always count on God to do nothing.

Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.

The fundamental problem most patients have is an inability to love themselves, having been unloved by others during some crucial part of their lives.

I think there are a lot of older people who are moving through life the right way, and they just don't know it.

The ego seeks fame and fortune. Humility doesn't seek at all - it accepts.

No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural.

I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.