Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

As a kid, I thought of myself as a funny person who secretly wanted to be serious, but now I think maybe I'm a serious person who secretly wants to be funny.

I considered mores to be one of the great general causes responsible for the maintenance of a democratic republic . . . the term "mores" . . . meaning . . . habits of the heart.

Have confidence in the inventions and transformations of chance.

I'm totally confused about what I'm going to do with my life.

In pop culture news, Lady Gaga got married. And yes, she was wearing white meat.

Silly girls your heads full of boys

The false can never grow into truth by growing in power.

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.

The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.