People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.

If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either.

I'm a sucker for curiosity's whims.Does that make me a cat person?

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

To build a road is so much simpler than to think of what the country really needs.

This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

I'm taking these slings and arrows for you, so we can have our borders, so we can get back our jobs, so we can be a safe nation again.

One rose is enough for the dawn

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

The Republicans’ plan is that if they can’t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.

The cow is an exceptionally loving and gentle creature. She cries for days when her calf is taken from her. It is a pitiful sound, a pitiful sound.

Frequently consider the connection of all things in the universe. .. We should not say 'I am an Athenian' or 'I am a Roman' but 'I am a citizen of the Universe.