“Life is short, the art long.”

“There are so many opportunities in life, that the loss of two or three capabilities is not necessarily debilitating. A handicap can give you the opportunity to focus more on art, writing, or music.”

“Painting is by nature a luminous language.”

“Kinkade estimated that one of his paintings hung in every twenty homes in America. Yet the art world unanimously ignores or reviles him. Me included.”

“There's no being wrong in seeing something in art, only being disagreed with.”

“It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.”

“The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“My painting does not come from the easel.”