Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

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.

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

It has been observed that all Americans need a frontier: pain was hers, and she was determined to push it out.

Your integrity may disgrace your pride at the time you don't think but that doesnt mean you should stop. You'll have to accept and move on with your life in the way it is.

And I finally understood something--why had it taken me so long? Sometimes people lie because they love you.

There is a thin line between attraction and repulsion

My taste in music originates from my culture and heritage, and from traveling the world and listening to all kinds of fun sounds and bits.

I love cooking. Not for myself alone. Cooking is about giving.

Two Americans have been awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics. They are the first to figure out all the charges on their telephone bill.

I like femininity, not of the devout, but of the self-assured, cool and sophisticated kind.

Why should the lamp or the house be an art object but not our life?

Nobody talks about music as having intrinsic meaning, how it engages the mind.