Life is what you make it.

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.

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it.

I like to paint something that leads me on and on into the unknown, something that I want to see away on beyond.

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

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.

I would never sit back in a rocking chair, waiting for someone to help me.