In order to work and to become an artist one needs love. At least, one who wants sentiment in his work must in the first place feel it himself, and live with his heart

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 reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no secret motives, no hidden agenda.

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

I don't want to see blood spewing out but I don't mind it in controlled environment. Does it make me squeamish? No.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.

This is the point. One technology doesn't replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

He was silent for a moment, staring out the window into the rain; I imagined he was contemplating the fact that his family's presence was turning the locals into giant dogs.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!