The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.

Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.

I had a dialect coach to get an American accent, and then another dialect coach to come off it a bit. There is something deep and mysterious in the voice when it isn't too high-pitched American.

Until the raw ingredients of a pudding make a pudding, I shall never believe that the raw material of sensation and thought can make a work of art without the cook's intervening.

It's not fair. It's not fair," she cried, knowing it was a child's argument but not caring, because being childish did not make it untrue.

Be good. Be kind to each other. And if there's somebody you love, tell them. The world always needs more love.

There is an intimate interdependence of intellect and morals.

I love exploring New York and I think that's what is so exciting about it. You find places that you've never heard of or seen before all the time.

The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian.