How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

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.

I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went.

Real prayer is communion with God

Each time that I think you go, I turn around and you're creeping in.

Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry.

Impudence is the worst of all human diseases.

Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.

Everything we think and feel (and keep thinking and feeling) creates, deep within, the brain we have.

I fell in love with the public, the public fell in love with me, and I tried to keep it that way.

The loss of reason seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino!