I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time.

I have to change to stay the same.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.

I don't paint to live, I live to paint.

What you do when you paint, you take a brush full of paint, get paint on the picture, and you have faith.

The drawings that interest me most are made with closed eyes. With eyes closed, I feel my hand slide down on the paper. I have an image in mind, but the results always surprise me.

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.

It's really absurd to make... a human image, with paint, today, when you think about it... But then all of a sudden, it was even more absurd not to do it.

I might work on a painting for a month, but it has too look like I painted it in a minute.

Spiritually I am wherever my spirit allows me to be, and that is not necessarily in the future... Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure.

The best dreams are the dreams we made come true for the world.

Always polish the dirt for a refreshing start and seek out to build new mental structures that can help you to become rejuvenated.

The woman would be beautiful if she wasn't so deceitful, but snakes ofte3n had the most beautiful design on their scales.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

I want to make sure I'm not a dilettante. Decorating has been a passion all my life. I love it.

The Bible is the one Word of the one God about the one way of salvation through the one Savior, Jesus Christ.

Follow your heart's truth with no need for personal gain other than the feeling produced when doing what you truly love.

A man's life is what his thoughts make of it.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.