Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

I am mission and must complete it.

I did a butterfly show in Berlin, and we had a guy who's an expert on butterflies; who bred them all and who looks after them all in the space.

Be a light unto others, not boastful of self.

Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and more rays will not interfere with the first.

Children, I suppose, are always unfinished business: they begin as part of your own body, and continue as separate as another continent.

i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive

When it comes to the work, I'm excited to see what people think. When it comes to the private life, that's when I don't pay attention.

I'm telling you that you got your facts wrong. I didn't kill your brother. But you killed my mother. You might as well have held the gun to her head!

Poverty doesn't come because of the decrease of wealth but because of the increase of desires.