Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination do not become the slave of your model.

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.

Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.

Perfect is the enemy of done.

The decision to feed the world is the real decision. No revolution has chosen it. For that choice requires that women shall be free.

Empirical sciences prosecuted purely for their own sake, and without philosophic tendency are like a face without eyes.

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

I rowed for Cambridge. I was pretty good at that.

Recreation is intended to the mind as whetting is to the scythe, to sharpen the edge of it, which otherwise would grow dull and blunt,--as good no scythe as no edge.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

What others do may be the stimulus of our feelings, but never the cause.

Killing and gangbanging, that's just wrong.