I am painting with the same enthusiasm as a Marseillaise eats bouillabaisse ... I am painting big sunflowers.

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.

The essential attributes of a great leader are a positive attitude, humility, and gratitude.

I don't ever want to be a fair-weather anything. Playing through the elements is always better than sitting on the sidelines.

Always a trade. Always a compromise. Until there wasn't anything left to bargain with, because neither one us had any clue what to do.

Modern man has too many masks to wear. We must unmask and be ourselves, sincerely, earnestly and live truly as we are,

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

It is strange to have everybody in the world still think of you as a child.

[Arthur Koestler] wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".

The divorce is from my old putter. I think it's final - at least we're due for a long separation. I've suffered with that old putter for two years now. It got so rude I couldn't stand it.

If you listen to a language for 15 minutes, you know the rhythm and song.

We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years.