Put a colour upon a canvas - it not only colours with that colour the part of the canvas to which the colour has been applied, but it also colours the surrounding space with the complementary.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

They would sweep their poverty under the carpet if only they had one.

Passion warms up the soup of love cold in the vessel of the soul

Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author

I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity.

As I get older, I've been having a better and better time.

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

I travel like a gypsy, and I didn't know how I could perform and be a mother.