The camera will never compete with the brush and the palette, until such time as photographs can be taken in Heaven or Hell.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

Some day, we will know the value of suffering, but then we will no longer be able to suffer.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Spurs are up against one of the top coaches in the world if not one of the best in the world

There's so many things that mattered so much in my 20s and 30s that don't matter now.

The real issue is not whether two and two make four or whether two and two make five, but whether life advances by men who love words or by men who love living.

With all respects to heaven, I like it here.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

If we don’t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort.

Nothing says spring like hand-cut flowers.

Australia, Australia, we love you from the heart. The kidneys, the liver & the giblets too. And every other part.