"The advice I got from my dad guided me to work in the medical field. I have not regretted it. Otherwise, I could be a famous artist like Picasso (maybe after my death) or a starving artist in Taiwan somewhere (most likely)."

"I am training myself to use my left hand to draw, since I have used my right hand/left brain for 56 years... Actually, I was left handed to begin and got corrected... I will be a right handed surgeon, but left handed artist. This is great. Mei think my tomatoes look real, too. My only audience!"

"When we first built the house, I always had a dream of watching little kids holding a basket and picking stuff from the garden. It is still my dream picture. Unfortunately, life was too busy to fulfill that dream."

"I've found it is fun to draw seashells with watercolor. It brings the translucency out. The colors are usually beautiful."

"Flower paintings, how could they do it before the flowers die?  I am painting the flower bouquet you gave me for my birthday. I took photos as back up. But I am watching the flowers fading in front of my eyes every day."