I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.
When you get to be my age, you begin to count how many Mays you have left - the best time of year for flowers and birds in North America.
I can't conceive of anything being more varied and rich and handsome than the planet Earth. And its crowning beauty is the natural world. I want to soak it up, to understand it as well as I can, and to absorb it. And then I'd like to put it together and express it in my paintings. This is the way I want to dedicate my work.
To me the most important thing in a piece of art is the thought. Technique is totally secondary.
You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names. . . If you don't know the names of plant and animal species that share your neighbourhood, you don't care about them and can't protect biodiversity.
It doesn't take more skill to paint hundreds of strokes rather than one right stroke but it takes more patience.
I've never thought sitting around worrying helps anything, except to help shorten your life.
There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where they'll take you.
The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.
I had always assumed that people were interested in economic affairs, just as I was. My assumption was justified. The times caught up with me. I was ready. I was there.
Its always been fun for me to play a variety of parts, and over the years, Ive been lucky with the things Ive been asked to do.