Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Fear is a faint heart.

If you want to be somebody else, change your mind.

We are always seeking it, never finding it.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

I've always believed that the range or depth of emotion can be great, whether you're play a three-minute piece, or a half-hour work.

Any who stand in my way shall be cut down!

You sign an agreement; you make a contract, you live up to it. You never get what you deserve. You get what you negotiate. You got a right to say yay or nay.

I'm a fierce editor! I don't edit out things that I began by saying, usually. The editing is on the micro level - a comma here, a word there.

This is where young players today want to land. They want to be NBA players because of the money.

Small steps work—grandiose goals don’t.