“People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.”

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Success is what sells.

I always notice flowers.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

Perception precedes reality.

Fashion is more art than art is.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can’t be on your own, which is always so much better.

Land really is the best art.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

Everybody must have a fantasy.

I think an artist is anybody who does something well, like if you cook well.

I’m aware that, whatever the circumstances, there will always be speculation about me.

Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion

The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

We do not have to romanticize our past in order to be aware of how it seeds our present.

Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light.

Anger is better. There is a sense of being in anger. A reality and presence. An awareness of worth. It is a lovely surging.

You must be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.