For instead of trying to reproduce exactly what I see before me, I make more arbitrary use of colour to express myself more forcefully.

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.

A good place to meet a man is at the dry cleaner. These men usually have jobs and bathe.

Daily memorise one passage of Scripture.

If truth and moral values are relative, one cannot claim that certain human rights are universally applicable to all cultures and all people.

Fear that man who fears not God.

I'm bored, I'm the chairman of the board.

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

Fashion which affects to be honor, is often, in all men's experience, only a ballroom-code.

Your desire for consistency itself will set you on the right path. As long as you keep going up, never mind if you come down once or twice.

After all, how many ways can one heart be mangled and still be expected to keep beating?

I have a bone to pick with Fate