How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

You can't run from who you are. The best you can do is take who are you are and make the best YOU that you can be.

For me, the sea was a great comfort, Pilar. But it made my children restless. It exists now so we can call and wave from opposite shores.

Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus is the Christ

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

You make a choice to make music or be an actor, and people automatically think they can have access to your life.

It is your ability as a creative person to envision positive change that will make a difference.

Yes, Roza. I did want you. I still do. I wish... we could be together. -Dimitri to Rose on their relationship

Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.

Your hair is an act of God.