No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Be a critical thinker too sometimes. Look in to your heart and give your self permission to ask your mind and question the teachings that doesn't resonate with the wisdom of your soul.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

To long to read.

The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.

I used to suffer from excessive pride. Well, I got over that one.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

As shaking terrors from his blazing hair, a sanguine comet gleams through dusky air.