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.

A primitive artist is an amateur whose work sells.

If you know somethin' well, you can always paint it but people would be better off buyin' chickens.

People should take time to be happy.

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.

Even now / I am not old. / I never think of it, and yet / I am a grandmother to eleven grandchildren.

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.