It is no more easy to make a good picture than it is to find a diamond or a pearl. It means trouble and you risk your life for it.

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.

Trust is believing "I will be safe with you". Love is striving to keep the trust.

Why does merely attempting to understand Reality so often seem to lead to going insane?

I'm not opposed to doing science fiction or comedy, but there has to be respect. I refuse to be the joke, the fat woman joke, in any movie. I've turned down roles.

I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.

As long as you wish to separate yourself from the immortal consciousness, you will suffer. You will experience the pain of the separation, the abridgment of infinite mind in finite form.

To define is to limit.

Profound sincerity is the only basis of talent as of character.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Honesty is good sense, politeness, amiableness,--all in one.

Dreams and actions are not so different as usually thought, as all actions of men are founded upon dreams, and their end - is a dream too.