But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

All the money in the world can't buy you back good health.

In the final analysis, photography... is ever a hireling, ever the hired gun.

We are selling dreams. We are merchants of happiness.

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another.

The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

The fact is, mental philosophy is very like Poverty, which, you know, begins at home; and indeed, when it goes abroad, it is poverty itself.

Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues.

The progress of human enlightenment can go no further than in picturing people not as vicious, but as mistaken.

For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.

The wonderful thing about being a New York Times columnist is that it's like a Supreme Court appointment - they're stuck with you for a long time.