The painter’s instrument is his armchair.

To say that a thing is beautiful is simply an act of faith, not a measurement on some kind of scale.

Nothing is important save the spiritual state that enables one to subjectify one's thoughts to a sensation and to think only of the sensation, all the while searching to express it.

I do not belong to any school, I simply want to do something that is personal to my self.

Conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.

There is no art without a poetic aim.

We perceive nature through the senses, which give us images of forms of colour, sounds etc. A form which exists only in relation to another form on its own, it does not exist.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

One! two! and through and throughThe vorpal blade went snickersnack!He left it dead, and with its headHe went galumphing back.

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

I've had an exciting life I married for love and got a little money along with it.

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

you can never prove God; you can only find Him!

I grew up singing in Kansas. My dad had a band when I was growing up. So I sang in church and school and started singing with his band when I was seven. So I've been singing all my life.

History...shows that even seemingly miraculous advances are in fact the result of many people taking small steps together over a long period of time.

What is a business? It's simply an idea that makes someone else's life better

Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay.