I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Freedom is that instant between when someone tells you to do something and when you decide how to respond.

We treat the Bible, not as if it's a magic book that has to be handled like a piece of abracadabra, make sure it's dusted, never put it on the floor, and things like that.

A challenge to the designers of the world: Make signs unnecessary.

There is nothing that dulls a personality so much as a negative outlook.

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic.

Knowledge is much like dust - it sticks to one, one does not know how.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

I most carefully confined myself to facts and arranged those facts on as thin a line of connecting opinion as possible.

And fools who came to scoff remain'd to pray.

I apply the same amount of dedication to being a mom as I do to my music...