I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.
We didn't have money for toys, so I made my own.
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
To me, the world's rather beautiful if you look at it. Especially nature.
I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.
In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.
Abstraction is real, probably more real than nature.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one's sensations.
Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn.
I love deliberately badly written books.
I was always struck by how Picasso had no interest in music.
When I see my mom in the stands, it always pushes me to succeed.
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
My mom would have liked it that I patterned myself more after Jimmy Reed.
My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.
Being a mom kind of grounded me in a way. Your body takes on a whole new meaning.
My mom sang in high school choir and so did my father.
