I tried to express through red and green the terrible passions of humanity.

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.

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

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

Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

You wouldn't want any creative process to lose its sense of fun and adventure, but that doesn't mean you can't take it seriously as well.

Our emotions tell us what to value. They're like a little GPS system: Go that way. Don't go that way.

We must take our friends as they are.

I sometimes wonder what this person or that person might be like in bed.

I would give worlds, could I believe One-half that is profess'd me; Affection! could I think it Thee, When Flattery has caress'd me.

Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

The weakest believer is a member of Christ as well as the strongest; and the weakest member of the body mystically shall not perish. Christ will cut off rotten members, but not weak members.