One of the most difficult things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

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.

Who're them?" says he to the curate."Them are the fallen angels, " says the c

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

I have no great quickness of apprehension or wit which is so remarkable in some clever men, for instance Huxley

What I hated was doing what somebody in LA thought Jeff Foxworthy ought to do.

Doing any job for too long limits your possibilities.

Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?

If you're happy all of the time, it's difficult to acknowledge when you actually are happy.

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love.

Healing is a choice. It’s not an easy one because it takes work to turn around your habits. But keep making the choice and shifts will happen.

I was never shielded from the realities of what it meant to be an artist and that made me afraid to be an artist because I wanted to know that my life was secure.