Bement was a very good teacher but he was a very poor painter. I guess he wasn't a painter at all. He had no courage and I believe that to create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I've been afraid every single day of my life, but I've gone ahead and done it anyway.

Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing.

I have a single track mind. I work on an idea for a long time. It's like getting acquainted with a person, and I don't get acquainted easily.

God told me if I painted that mountain enough, I could have it.

I had to create an equivalent for what I felt about what I was looking at - not copy it.