Life is what you make it.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

I'll get an inspiration and start painting; then I'll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

People should take time to be happy.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

I don't advise any one to take it [painting] up as a business proposition, unless they really have talent... But I will say that I have did remarkable for one of my years, and experience.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

It only takes one person, one voice from somewhere beyond, to save a life.

You need fighters like me to battle, because frankly The New York Times and the Washington Post are not going to fight the fights that I do.

...don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.

Loyalty is from above, betrayal is from below.

Don't bunt. Aim out of the ball park. Aim for the company of immortals.

The enlightened being can look through states of mind, but they are also outside of them.

Truth is simple, but Illusion makes it infinitely intricate. The person is rare who possesses an insatiable longing for Truth; the rest allow Illusion to bind them ever more and more.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Phish is such a good band; they just make stuff up as a jam band.