Within one hour of touching the brush to canvas for the first time, my students have a total, complete painting.

Just let go - and fall like a little waterfall

Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now.

Let's build us a happy, little cloud that floats around the sky.

Put light against light - you have nothing. Put dark against dark - you have nothing. It's the contrast of light and dark that each give the other one meaning.

It's the imperfections that make something beautiful, that's what makes it different and unique from everything else.

I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.

Trees don't grow even, they don't grow straight just however it makes them happy.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

I don't know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

Whatever makes you happy, you put in your world.

He'd believed it. She couldn't believe that he believed it. Sometimes, she hated him for that.

There's a beauty in being part of a band, when there's equality and trust.

Success is not a straight line, it's much more of a dance and being open to possibilities.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

Only in novels can we take another human being into our head and create something jointly.

Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.

There is now a fairly crowded field out there of people who are incredibly wealthy that are giving money to advance their own political agendas.

Art Deco for me except in its most crazed and attenuated forms, it's jut a matter of taste.