The humblest painter is a true scholar and the best of scholars the scholar of nature.

Sculpture is the best comment that a painter can make on painting.

People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith family home a simpler way of living the beauty of nature quiet tranquillity peace joy hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.

All I wanted was to connect my moods with those of Paris. Beauty paints and when it painted most I shot.

For when with beauty we can virtue join We paint the semblance of a form divine.

I have a talent for happiness. I look with the eyes of a painter and I see beauty.

If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.

I think beauty comes from within and society paints a ridiculous picture.

I am a great lover of art in many forms: paintings objets textiles. I don't have the talent for painting but I have a very good sense of colour a love of visual beauty.

I love Rauschenberg. I love that he created a turning point in visual history that he redefined the idea of beauty that he combined painting sculpture photography and everyday life with such gall and that he was interested in as he put it 'the ability to conceive failure as progress.'