My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

To ‘stop and smell the roses’ we must first believe that there’s a rose garden out there somewhere. And in this jaded world of ours, the refusal to believe in gardens leaves most of us ref of roses.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.

The plastic knife is perfect for when a person just wants to make some marks on his food and get insanely frustrated at the same time.

If ever I want to amuse myself with an idiot, I have not far to look for one. I laugh at myself.

I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

As always after drinking too much, I felt like my own ghost trying to take it's first solo walk outside the body.

Sometimes I’m afraid that I’m losing myself.