If what you want to paint is the emotive mood in all its strength... then you must not sit and stare at everything and depict it exactly as one sees it.

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

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

Nature won't be summoned to order and won't be kept waiting. It must be caught, well caught.

anchor, v.: I drift, I drift, I drift, you stay.

You weigh how much you should criticize the President because hes black.

I have so many favorite writers, it's very hard to select a few... of classic writers, I have always admired Emily Dickinson and Henry David Thoreau.

The reader is the content of any poem or of the language he employs, and in order to use any of these forms, he must put them on.

Prison guard unions have become the powerful political forces in some states, particularly California.

I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

I'm obsessed by the idea of making my mark on history. And Arsenal is my paradise.