By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Whatever you do needs a true you.

it’s a long race and you can always outwork talent in the end

For me, what makes great actors, always is how truthful they are to the character and the story and the emotion that they're trying to tell.

Yet we didn't fix anything. Our roads are bad, our bridges are bad, our tunnels are bad, our schools are bad, our hospitals are bad.

May you not rest, as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me, then.

The triumph of anything is a matter of organization.

If at first you don't succeed - give it up. It isn't worth the pain.

There are so many families around the country that can't have children. We can improve options so families can have children, can adopt more readily those children.

To me what really matters is that it shouldn't matter to you what day of the week it is.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!