I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

The only consistent people are the dead

When I supported the stimulus package, I knew that it would not be popular with the Republican Party.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.

When I see people talking about TV, they're way more animated, way more passionate than when they talk about films.

I don't mind living in a man's world as long as I can be a woman in it.

People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't.

One day you just say "To heck with it," and you go looking for trouble, and you find happiness.

When we understand our baptismal covenant and the gift of the Holy Ghost, it will change our lives and will establish our total allegiance to the kingdom of God.