Down through the years, I turned to the Bible and found in it all that I needed
I think it is important to do what you believe in and ignore the critics.
I feel as though I haven't seen an object until I actually start painting it.
There are a lot of tricks you have to keep playing on yourself to keep at it because every time you hit a problem you want to walk away.
I had this attitude that it was going to take time for my work to grow. I had to develop skills to do what I wanted and I didn't really expect it was going to happen rapidly.
For me, painting is like meditation.
For a long time, I kept working at part-time jobs. . . my goal was to build up enough savings so I wouldn't be kicked out on the streets if I didn't sell enough paintings.
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San Antonio for generations, sometimes seven generations, their families are from there, and they are of Mexican descent, and they've never gone farther than the border.
I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
It’s useful to compare our preparations for epidemics with our preparations for war.
The winds were warm about us, the whole earth seemed the wealthier for our love.