If you know the differences between an oak and a poplar, a spruce and a pine, down to the needles... you are able to paint that tree with more conviction, even if done with a few broad strokes.

Art is the space between the viewer and the rectangle that hangs on the wall. Unless something of the person that created the work is there, there's nothing for the viewer to take away.

The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.

What you work hardest at, you love the most.

If everything that you do is for the market, it won't work.

I've started to experiment [in the studio] with texturing the canvas, building up the surface with large brushes, palette knife or fingers. I want to say more in my art.

It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession.

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Hypocrisy is an homage that vice renders to virtue.

I want to be a fun mom. Not a gasping for air mom.

Hatred and bitterness can never cure the disease of fear; only love can do that. Hatred paralyzes life; love harmonies it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

However small you might be, if necessary, struggle against the mountain of evils however big it may be!

Among many U. S. wine consumers, California holds a strong position.

So little of what could happen does happen.

I'm not a slave to the recording industry. I have the freedom to make an album that I want to make and do it the way I want.