You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.

I live each day with fullness of thanks.

Love has no age, race, wealth, ethnic bakground, gender, or appearence. Love is love and that's the way it's supposed to be.

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

I'll practice as good as I can, but I know that I play even better, with the qualities I have - leadership, my ability to make something happen in games, winning.

Because I helped discover the expansion rate of the universe was accelerating.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

I believe that Virtual Reality will hit it big time. I know that some of my colleagues disagree, but I believe in it.

Literature, it seems to me, is wisdom.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.