Toni Onley quotes:

I'd rather go out in a decent crack-up than in a hospital.

You're trying to make your painting too complicated. Paintings get complicated all by themselves.

Do not draw before you paint, it will restrict your brush.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

Let's find visual excitement in what nature has to offer.

People generally are more interested in my work when they get to know me. Serious collectors like to get not just a painting but a piece of the artist.

The good watercolors take a lifetime - plus a half an hour.

The more successful paintings just fall off the brush. The less successful ones take longer.