The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

My inner waters are healthy, balanced, and full of bliss for all time.

His hatred for her was now as solid as the boards he lay on, as the stones ringing the firepit.

Give and receive with gratitude. Do the former, without expectation of, the latter.

You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will never die.And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never ever grow up.

I have accepted all and I am free. The inner chains are broken as well as those outside.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.

There's been an awful lot of silence in make culture about this ongoing tragedy of men's violence against women and children... we need to break that silence, and we need more men to do that.

God doesn't desire our worship because He is egocentric. He desires it because we are.

The live show is different from the album. It's different every night depending on where I am and how many months have gone by since I last performed.