The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect

Being willing is not enough. We must do.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.

There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works.

Whatever you do in life, if you want to be creative and intelligent, and develop your brain, you must do everything with the awareness that everything, in some way, connects to everything else.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

there's always been a little sadness inside my happiness.i've never been able to separate the two.

You can't be the cause and the cure, mon amour.

Trust your instincts: they tend to see you right. By listening to them, at least you can sleep at night.

We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to seek higher plateaus in the things of the Spirit is all but gone.

I mean it's - it is hard to find a voice on talk radio that is not a conservative voice.

The rebellion of art is a daily rebellion against the state of living death routinely called real life.

my goal is to always come from a place of love ...but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.