I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.

Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.

Someone has asked me to paint Biblical pictures, and I say no, I'll not paint something that we know nothing about, might just as well paint something that will happen two thousand years hence.

Life is what you make it.

People should take time to be happy.

If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.

I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people.