The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Experiences might teach us to be cautious, but never to be paranoid. Paranoia is a limiter of destiny

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.

No! If you die, I die! You asked me to spend forever with you, and I'm going to!

Money need not be our only reward.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate.

The guy [Donald Trump] has a lot of problems - physical, mental, emotional, cognitive. You know, he comes with a whole lot of baggage, and I think it's pretty obvious.

To understand one thing well is better than understanding many things by halves.

My major was Fine Arts and Education thinking I would become an Art Teacher. I couldn't visualize myself as an art teacher, thinking how it wouldn't work.

Even as age humbles me it feeds my arrogance. There is still nothing that interests me as much as myself.