In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

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.

I died on a bitter cold night. Beneath a black sky and a bruised winter moon, I tried to fly, hoping my arms might act as wings.

Even now that he is gone I have him still, in the richness of my memories. I've lived my life again just telling it to you.

Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.

Your story is the greatest legacy that you will leave to your friends.It's the longest-lasting legacy you will leave to your heirs.

If we deny climate change and don’t care about environmental degradation

For women there are undoubtedly great difficulties in the path but so much the more to overcome. First no woman would say "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together, with the author's discreet help.