“It’s so important to do something every day that will make you happy.”

I don’t know if anything in nature ever grows exactly the same, but they are always exactly as the way it should be, perfectly itself.

Everybody has dreams. You are living the American dream, what’s wrong with pushing to secure it for everyone?

I can’t think of anything more rewarding than being able to express yourself to others through painting.

We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Didn’t you know you had that much power? You can move mountains. You can do anything.

Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you’re willing to practice, you can do.

Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.

Ever make mistakes in life? Let’s make them birds. Yeah, they’re birds now.

Painting will bring a lot of good thoughts to your heart.

Never think about the mistakes you made. Think about the mistakes you will make.

Gotta give him a friend. Like I always say, ‘Everyone needs a friend.

We want happy paintings. Happy paintings. If you want sad things, watch the news.

Exercising the imagination, experimenting with talents, being creative; these things, to me, are truly the windows to your soul.

Wash the brush, just beats the devil out of it.

All you need to paint is a few tools, a little instruction, and a vision in your mind.

We artists are a different breed of people. We’re a happy bunch.

But this I know: if all mankind were to take their troubles to market with the idea of exchanging them, anyone seeing what his neighbor’s troubles were like would be glad to go home with his own.

There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can’t get.

I don’t know any more about the future than you do. I hope that it will be full of work, because I have come to know by experience that work is the nearest thing to happiness that I can find. I want a busy life, a just mind and a timely death.

In 1968, I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry, and unhappy like we do.

And I am happy when I sing.

Success to me is only two things: happiness and stability.

As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.

Anyone I may have used should feel happy that they even had a use. It’s better than being useless.