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

If I paint something, I don’t want to have to explain what it is.

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.

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.

I don’t see why I can’t have friends of both sexes without wild rumors being circulated. It’s crazy.

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new, lose both.

We ride together. We die together.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn’t mean I’m gay.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.