One must act in painting as in life, directly.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

I could never be your godAnd I don't even think I want the job anymore

Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

I believe it stands for 'mother I'd like to...befriend.

I wouldn't buy somebody's album on a dare if they called him a musician's musician. I don't write to be a writer's writer. I don't want to be like the little-magazine writer.

Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.

Every day in life there are challenges; whether you're an accountant, a race car driver or whatever you do.

Mistakes - mistakes - you yourself are a unique mistake!

Were you hoping for a quest? A seemingly impossible task that you could relay to your queen afterward? Would you like to tell her that you found and slayed the dragon for love of her? -Queen Sorcha

I never wanted to have to take a job because I didn't have any money.