The more ugly, old, nasty, ill, and poor I become the more I want to get my own back by producing vibrant, well-arranged, radiant colour.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.

James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and then will only correct you if he finds it incorrect.

We do have an obligation to deter conflict and to prepare for it should it occur.

A friend in need is a friend to be avoided.

In the fall term of 1933-34 I was on my family farm in Maine.

When I'm lying in my bed, I think about life and I think about death. And neither one particularly appeals to me.