Paint the essential character of things.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

When you understand who God is, you can see beyond a shadow of a doubt why your weakness is nothing to be feared, because it just leaves more room for him and his strength.

I may have my fault's but being wrong isn't one of them

Awkwardness is when there's a risk of a perception gap between what you mean and what you appear to mean.

For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

You don't have to do anything. Why worry? It's all god's plan anyway. Just love everyone and believe.

Don't dress for others, dress for yourself. Clothes should be an extension of what you represent and what you feel inside.

It's amazing how fast later comes when you buy now!

Everybody was saying we must have more leisure. Now they are complaining they are unemployed.

I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet.

It's easy to lose sight of the ultimate goal when you're in the trenches.