A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Life is too short to listen to fools, and too important to ignore the wise.

Welcome to America, where racism will never end, white don't respect black, where black skin people are treated like criminals.

How long can you be cute?

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

It's a lot of work organizing something, whether it's a show or a book, and I don't want to do it every day.

Growing up, I was in and out of trouble in group homes and other institutions, and when I was 14, I was locked up in a psychiatric hospital for a number of months for behavioral problems.

Glory can be for a woman but the brilliant morning of happiness.

To foreswear romantic love forever. To never grow up, never get married. To be maiden eternally.

There is a window between heart and heart: They are never separate like two bodies. Two lamps may not be united in their form - But their light merges into each other.

I have a podiatrist appointment at 2.