My breakthrough came very late in life, really only starting when I was 50...I had the strength for new deeds and ideas.

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

Let them see you cry. Let them see you sweat. Let them see you bleed. Those three drops make you human. Never fear to show your humanity. It’s the bravest act of all.

Stop wasting time, start investing time for that is the only way to greatness.

Light or Death!

Just surrender to the story.

My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I am this or I am that, but I Am.

Power is mass multiplied by cohesion.

World history is tragic.

Once you learn what life is about, there is no way to erase that knowledge. If you try to do something else with your life, you will always sense that you are missing something

There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.