Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the truly passionate painter who dares-and who has once broken the spell of 'you can't.'

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.

True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar

The seeking face that will not alter when presented with reason, must delight in its wearer's prideful ignorance.

I work hard. I focus on myself and putting food on my dinner table before anything else. I don't worry about other artists. Worrying about the next person in a negative way is the wrong way to be.

We moralize among ruins.

The once all-powerful ruler of Iraq was found in a hole, and now sits in a prison cell.

How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow Into the arctic regions of our lives, Where little else than life itself survives.

Democracy fascinates me.

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

I urge you to choose companions well and cherish those friends who lift you and make you better in their presence. And be such friends to one another.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.