The real artist while he paints does not think of the sale, only of the need to make a beautiful living thing.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

I’m often told that money and spirituality are different things from people that don’t have time to read spiritual books because they have to work for money.

The Lord is your shepherd

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

Somewhere on the Earth tonight, my Tylla, there is a Man with a Lever, which, when he pulls it, Will Save The World. The man is now unemployed. His switch gathers dust. He himself plays pinochle.

I'm going to move forward, facing in your direction with all my might.

Oh! To be a butterfly Still, upon a flower, Winking with its painted wings, Happy in the hour.

I think I've learned more from women than anyone else, and perhaps from love. What a wonderful testing ground.

I'll go for things that I know are going to be wrong, with a vengeance

If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.

As much as I love movies, it would be presumptuous of me to think that I know how to make one.