I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.

I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.

For me, painting is like meditation.

I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.

There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.

For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs... my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.

We show confidence and faith in our own selves as well as in life when we decide to let go.

The indifference of the many, combined with the active hatred of the few, has sealed the fate of animals.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

Stress is a form of suffering.

I believe in markets doing what they do well, which is to develop technology, and letting citizens do what they ideally do well, which is to set policy.

Radio, sewing machine, bookends, ironing board and that great big piano lamp - peace, that's what I like. Butterbean vines planted all along the front where the strings are.

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.

That's what music is: entertainment. The more you put yourself into it, the more of you comes out in it.

Some had the custom of receiving the Eucharist daily, some twice a week, some on the Lord's day, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, some only on the Lord's Day.