Human cultures construct an enormous variety of environments through language, technology, and institutions. We are born in and die in these systems of symbols and imagination.

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

My view of the world is always tempered by the fact that there are people who are less fortunate than I am.

Even when I'm stressed out I'm not mean to people. I'm not constantly rude to people. But sometimes people are so rude.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

I hardly see myself as a futurist.

I am a simple man and I use simple materials: Ivory Black, Vermilion, Prussian Blue, Yellow Ochre, Flake White and no medium. That’s all I’ve ever used in my paintings.

If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking.

Man is nothing, absolutely nothing till he achieves physical immortality. God should be prosecuted on the charges of making man mortal!

Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use.