The reality comes first, and the symbol comes after. I see these things, and suddenly they become symbolic of life.

My only strength is finding something where most people would find nothing.

The fact is that until I saw paintings as icons, I couldn't see why people painted at all.

When I'm painting them, the whole legend and mythology of apples occurs to me, and so Adam and Eve and the snake and all the rest of it somehow gets into the picture.

The monster nevers dies.

So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.

Your future is still before you. Your land is a vast storehouse of mineral and agricultural wealth awaiting further development for the benefit of mankind. It potentialities are magnificent.

Creative people need time to just sit around and do nothing.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

Love may have the longest arms, but it can still fall short of an embrace.

Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Domination delegates the physical violence on which it rests to the dominated.

Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.