And painted portraits have a life of their own that comes from deep in the soul of the painter and where the machine can't go.

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.

Your eyes are an Ocean!

It is only just that anything that grows up on its own should feel it has nothing to repay for an upbringing which it owes no one.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

I practice yoga nidra to support my mental health and clear my mind space.

From the sentimental point of view, it is the last great Polar journey that can be made.

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident.

Harm no person, animal, plant or mineral.

we interpret life at moments of the deepest desperation.

Open your arms as wide as you can to receive all the miracles with your name on them. Never forget that all you have is all you need.

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime.