Nothing is more beautiful than a line that brings out a form.

Most beginners are too anxious for results. Real progress takes place over a long period of time.

I always work directly from life, partly because I really enjoy having an interaction with the person in front of me but also because I love having a direct response to shape and color.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

You have to evolve as an artist, and this is really a lifelong process.

A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.

Cats sleep in a state of total abandon, and I find that state very interesting in people as well.

Sometimes working on one painting will help solve a problem in another painting.

Everything in painting is about relationship, so I judge each area by its relationship to the surrounding areas.

I usually start by doing one or more color studies of the subject on a piece of canvas taped to cardboard.

Artists make things so much easier for themselves when they learn to trust their eyes.

Our subconscious mind stores all our negative beliefs, complexes and behavioral patterns

In keeping people straight, principle is not as powerful as a policeman.

When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.

Ghosts don't scare me. Flesh and blood people do.

If I am identified with my relationship, with my house, or with my money, I am doomed to suffer.

I don't think success is harmful, as so many people say. Rather, I believe it indispensable to talent, if for nothing else than to increase the talent.

I don't give a damn what people think.

First romance, first love, is something so special to all of us, both emotionally and physically, that it touches our lives and enriches them forever.

This divine Compassion is spontaneous Delight. In it there is no feeling of separativity, no feeling that one is superior and the other is inferior. No! It is a feeling of oneness.

Therefore am I still a lover of the meadows and the woods, and mountains; and of all that we behold from this green earth.