One can never study nature too much and too hard

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Artistic development is a thing of the past, sadly.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

As you can see, at my age - 48 - Art is still one big experiment.

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety nine retreat; That is progress.

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Born to lose. Live to win.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

You can get hurt at any time.

The freedom message brings us together, it doesn't divide us.

So I fell in love with a rich attorney's Elderly ugly daughter.