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I make art in and for the experience itself — to satisfy a need to express myself in a creative, colorful, non-verbal way.
Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006)
My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.
Words I Wish I Wrote (1997)
They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town — that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.
Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Reflections for Tending the Sacred Garden (2003)
Human life is like that clay on the wheel. If there is too much of any one thing, life will be out of balance; it will fall.
I don't think the thing is to be well known, but being worth knowing.
I don't do art to address other people but to address myself. I've never done art with a thought of being a professional artist who makes a living by selling his art.
Introduction to the Art gallery at his website (2006)
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history. … And I believe that love is stronger than death.
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be.
It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It (1988)
It’s almost impossible to go through life all alone.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
People won’t share or play fair if you hit them.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
One needs to learn the difference.
Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door (2001)
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
On the face of it, Dave's family and I don't have a lot in common. They're Mormons and Republicans. I'm a Unitarian and a Democrat.
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)