Any incentive to paint is as good as any other. There is no poor subject.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

We are not deceiving anyone, we are only deceiving our own soul [our own Self].

Become a lifelong learner. Read books, watch videos, listen to audio, and seek lessons for learning how to live your best life now.

I have so much empathy for these young actors that are 19 and all of a sudden they're beautiful and famous and rich. I'm like, 'Oh my God, I'd be dead.'

I love the Internet, and I love wasting time on the Internet - even though it sometimes ends up being not being a waste of time.

The real secret of happiness is simply this: to be willing to live and let live, and to know very clearly in one's own mind that the unpardonable sin is to be an unpleasant person.

The first dish pleaseth all.

I got a piggy bank and the goal was to fill it up.

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.

There are contemporary artists that I hate with all my heart. These are provocateurs that are without feeling. Where is the real emotion?

There are far more good answers "out there" than there are in you.