"When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else."

"I have always been interested in the colors of the desert. They are so subtle and yet so intense."

"I think it's so foolish for people to want to be painters in this day and age. It's such a dead art."

"I have to be myself. I can't be anyone else."

"I started out to be a musician, but I found that I could say more with paint."