I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.

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.

We are capable of anything and everything

You have to write down all your everyday steps

I love whenever they downgrade a hurricane to a tropical depression, because I always think of a tropical depression as how I feel three songs into a Jimmy Buffett concert.

Most political leaders acquire their position by causing large numbers of people to believe that these leaders are actuated by altruistic desires

I would beg, borrow, and steal to live in N.Y.C.

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money.

You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

My body and my arm will tell me when they're ready.

Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.

I don't want to be a luvvie actor. It took a long time for me to accept I was an actor, a professional actor, and that, actually, I make a living out of this.