All great art originates from the innocent child within us expressing itself through the wisdom, experience and skill of an adult.

Talent, don't bother about wether or not you have it. Just assume that you do, and forget about it. Talent is a word we use after someone has become accomplished.

It often takes two to do a good painting - one to paint it, and another to rap the painter smartly with a hammer before he or she can ruin it.

I honestly believe students of painting in the next century will laugh at the abstract art movement. They will marvel at such a drawn-out regression in the plastic arts.

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you don't, the result will look like something that isn't there.

Make your art a gift of inspiration to others to work toward better things.

When we are bursting with some wordless experience, Art is our voice, the song of the heart.

What sets you apart from the rest of humanity is your ability to give visual form to an idea - the skill to transform it into something more than merely the insight or perception alone.

Don't wish for "secrets" of the masters, either. There are none worth fooling with. They had no special mediums or paints, nor special brushes that made their work great.

The strength and clarity of the picture you envision at the start will tell you when you are done. You are finished when you have said what you wish to say, when nothing added can make it better.

My idealism is clearly one reason I'm an artist. I see art as one of mankind's more sublime acts, as a vital counterbalance to our base impulses .

But my world fell apart, and all they could do, the whole universe, was to silently move on.

There is seed time and harvest, choose to sow at the right time so as to have a bountiful harvest.

So life does flow, but not from left to right on a time scale, rather frominside out.

Virtue!--to be good and just-- Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.

I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy.

Mexicans are quasi-legal.

To force myself to earn more money, I determined to spend more.

Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.

I have a cultured manner of speaking.

anger is more productive than fear.