I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Cloud is cloud.

We must fight for peace bravely as we fought in war.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.

A true gentleman doesn’t prefer blondes. A true gentleman doesn’t have any preferences whatsoever.

‎We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).

I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

Good telling of human stories is the best way to keep the Internet and World Wide Web from becoming a waste vastland.

Animal substance seems to be the first food of all birds, even the granivorous tribes.