I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted ... the clouds as actual blood. The colour shrieked.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

The slow compromise or even surrender of our fondest hopes is a regular feature of normal human life.

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250, 000 in Britain.

Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great.

Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking.

The gunshot holds no fear!

Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

I didn't mean to take up all your sweet time... I'll give it right back to you, one of these days

Children are curious and are risk takers. They have lots of courage. They venture out into a world that is immense and dangerous. A child initially trusts life and the processes of life.

We should use the transition to a better energy strategy as an opportunity to create a better economy and a better country all around.