The whole world, as we experience it visually, comes to us through the mystic realm of color.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

It's more interesting to be out in the world. than to see it reflected in the mirror.

Cat herding is simple. Just drag a string behind you.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I don't follow trends. I make each cake for a particular wedding, or event.

If something's neither here nor there, where the hell is it?

In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.

I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of music I wanted to make.

Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

I knew it was happening, but I never paid much attention to it . . . just to the passage of time. Something new always slowly changes right in front of your eyes - it just happens.