I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

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.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.

I realized I’m in love. It's always been right in front of me.

Remembrance of things past is just for the rich. For the poor it only marks the faint traces on the path to death.

Past and future is determined by what is now…right now! This is why the present is a gift

What a place we find ourselves in now. What a mad and dangerous universe of possibility.

Virtue often trips and falls over the sharp edge of poverty.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?" Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.

I grew up with boys of all kinds - I have two brothers, and I was in a bagpipe band for several years.

It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain.

I met Bush but we didn't talk at all. To tell you the truth, I was too pissed.

Christians have abused, oppressed, enslaved, insulted, tormented, tortured, and killed people in the name of God for centuries, on the basis of a thelogically defensible reading of the Bible.