Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

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.

The universe is math on fire.

You don't need your eyes to love, Right?

Next time someone tells you to smile for the camera, & you don’t feel like it—say no, thanks. Don’t fake your way into a happy-seeming life. Open vulnerable honesty is true positivity.

But if you close your eyes, does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?

Hard work will always overcome natural talent when natural talent does not work hard enough.

By the time I got to the league I knew the cameras were going to be there and to turn it on.

People have always frightened and bored me consequently I have been within my own shell.

In my opinion, Marxism is a great creed of human liberation. It is the creed which says that when all other empires fade and vanish, our business is to enlarge the empire of the human mind.

I want to be a good role model for girls and show them they can do whatever they feel passionate about and still live a healthy life.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.