Take yourself seriously but take yourself lightly.
If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either.
When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.
People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.
If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.
You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.
When I was just starting out in the business, I used to love to watch Lorne Greene doing the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I said right then, 'That's what I want to do someday,' and it's been one dream that has come true.
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
After the journey around the world, writing Hope's Edge, I began to see that it is not possible to know what's possible - and therein lies our freedom.
One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.