How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.

I like the way dreams present themselves as words and images that are trying to get your attention using your model-making brain's ability to make up stories.

I haven't been in a job situation in which I was competing with other women. As a writer, you're more likely to be treated as an individual.

I love track and field, but I also know the day will come when I will have to do something else.

If thy friends tire of thee, remember that it is human to tire of everything.

People think drama drives story, but I think the comedy is really the heart and soul.

I acknowledge that Hulu's easy accessibility probably keeps some people from pirating. But a respected industry analyst says less than 5% of TV content is being stolen today.

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

Every hour of useful work is precious.