I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

I realize that protest paintings are not exactly in vogue, but I've done many.

Some people like to paint trees. I like to paint love. I find it more meaningful than painting trees.

I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old

I think of my peace paintings as one long poem, with each painting being a single stanza.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

I had no idea LOVE would catch on the way it did. Oddly enough, I wasn't thinking at all about anticipating the Love generation and hippies. It was a spiritual concept. It isn't a sculpture of love any longer. It's become the very theme of love itself.