Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

The real meaning of things lies deep down and the real meaning of things is always beautiful because it is simply love.

Categories No. 4 and No. 5: Three small cards to a straight and two small cards with an ace.

To sell well is to convince someone else to part with resources—not to deprive that person, but to leave him better off in the end.

Over the course of a day, you get to get a feel for where you're playing, so when you get out on stage, you already feel like you've had a bit of a bonding experience with them.

What people see in the news are places where things have not going so well.

By the laws of God, of nature, of nations, and of your country you are and ought to be as free a people as your brethren in England.

Autumn is the harvest of greedy death.

When a parent dies, the whole house of cards comes down.

Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

It's hard to judge yourself. Each Essence cover represents a different special moment in my life. One is about keeping it sexy in my 40s, so I'm not mad about that either.