“I’d like to live as a poor man with lots of money.”

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into sun.

I don’t work from nature, I work like nature.

Nature does many things the way I do, but she hides them!

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

In every photographer there was a painter, a true artist, awaiting expression.

One of the exciting things about being a believer is watching God unveil His plan for our lives.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

Live today as if you were going to live forever, for you surely shall.

You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist.

We live in a world where knowledge is developing at an ever-accelerating rate. Drink deeply from this ever-springing well of wisdom and human experience.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Faithfulness requires the courage to risk everything on Jesus, the willingness to keep growing, and the readiness to risk failure throughout our lives.