I never eat meat as I think it is wrong to deprive animals of their life when they are so difficult to chew anyway.

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.

Art is a magic which makes the hours melt away and even days dissolve into seconds

People under seventy and over seven are very unreliable if they are not cats.

I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.

There are things that are not sayable. That’s why we have art.

I didn't have time to be anyone's muse... I was too busy rebelling against my family and learning to be an artist.

[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Painting is my vehicle of transit. I don't always know where I am going or what it means.

The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.

Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

I'm planting a tree to teach me to gather strength from my deepest roots.

Better to be blinded by love than hate

I consider jealousy a humiliating and degrading feeling, and I shall never allow myself to be influenced by it.

If you want to hit home runs, you've go to swing a lot.

I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool.

I believe Marco Rubio is going to win Florida, I think Ted Cruz is going to win his Alamo in Texas. I think old rules apply. John Kasich's going to win Ohio as well.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.

If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

The best lessons, the best sermons are those that are lived.