I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

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.

What are kings, when regiment is gone, but perfect shadows in a sunshine day?

I love being with my children. They're fascinating people.

The fierce willingness to repudiate domination in a holistic manner is the starting point for progressive cultural revolution.

If you want to destroy something in this life, be it an acne, a blemish or the human soul, all you need to do is to surround it with thick walls. It will dry up inside.

Time is not a movement in space. Space is a movement in time.

A good example of how it must have been is today's world of conducting, which is still utterly dominated by men, and the prejudice the few female conductors have to battle even today is astounding.

To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.

When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.