I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say "he feels deeply, he feels tenderly".

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.

Your greatest path of influence is love.

If we believed in the blessed Saviour, we shall be saved.

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.

Faith is the angelic messenger between the soul and the Lord Jesus in glory.

I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.

Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.

When is man strong until he feels alone?

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.

Flowers are born, and they wither...

Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.