The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

Life is a great surprise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen.

Begin to see yourself in all other beings.

I think one of the things we must constantly keep in mind is, 'If anybody hits you on one cheek, turn the other.'

My only emotion is gratitude, literally, for my life.

I am not throwing away my shot.

Terence: As my old da used to tell me, 'never trust a rich man'. David: Good thing I'm only moderately rich. Terence: Which is why I only moderately distrust you.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board.