I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Your mind gives birth to an action and, whether you like it or not, it will never let it become orphaned

When you are doing things for the right reasons, you do not need to play by the rules, because there are no rules for a creator walking the path of love.

In an oppressive society the truth-telling nature of literature is of a different order, and sometimes valued more highly than other elements in a work of art.

Those who enter the country illegally violate the law.

I say what I think, and I stand behind what I say.

Remember that winners do what losers don't want to do.

He who does not stretch himself according to the coverlet finds his feet uncovered.

I sometimes struggle, because my job is like the antithesis of what surfing is all about. Surfing's simple. It's real.

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

The peace movement didn't stop the Iraq but I think that Blair would not be able to go along and support an Iranian war.