It's as interesting and as difficult to say a thing well as to paint it. There is the art of lines and colours, but the art of words exists too, and will never be less important.

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.

I think one who thrives on death may be defeated by life.Elswyth, from A Precarious Journey Into Magic

only the eye that sees can differentiate a flower from leaves

Love must become the essence of our being

I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.

I jumped out of perfectly good airplanes and it's a great thrill, and it allows me to share in the dangers that the great men - our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They just die.

This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime

Neurophysiologists will not likely find what they are looking for, for that which they are looking for is that which is looking.

The essence of the best thinking in the area of time management (practice planning) can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities