I hope to depart in no other way than looking back with love and wistfulness and thinking, oh paintings that I would have made..

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.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

No study is possible on the battlefield.

If you shoot, I will kill her before I die." Yes," Kitai said in a patient tone. "Which is why I have not shot you. Yet.

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth.

In New York City, when they develop something, they never use the old buildings. It's so wasteful. Why not use what's there?

The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.

I had a psychotic break that was brought on by alcohol and drug abuse.

To a true-blue professor of literature in an American university, literature is not something that a plain human being, living today, painfully sits down to produce. No; it is something dead.