I'm growing old, I delight in the past.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization.

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?

Life and Death took a break, weary from their burdensome role.Nobody lived or died that day.

You will have to put aside some things in your life, habits, ideas, ways of seeing life. You will have to learn new things, and then new things and then new things - forever.

Learning the art of expressing gratitude will force you to focus on the positive.

I would have been better than Adolf Hitler. I could have delivered his speeches a lot better... that's for certain.

Many now born, by the time they are voters will compose part of a nation with a genius nowhere equaled, and with a vast territory upon which those energies and that genius can operate.

Ladies and Gentleman, I'm afraid I've got some BAD NEWS.