The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.

The liars among us will know that every lie must contain a certain amount of truth if it's to be convincing. A dash of truth is often enough, but it's indispensable, like the olive in the martini.

I've told him to cut off his ponytail. I think it makes him less aerodynamic.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Nothings ever real until its real.

Men do not know how to appreciate and measure luck except that of others. Their own never.

Man's mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival is not.

I respect most boxers because they're violent people who learned to discipline themselves ... a good boxer is an artist ... Boxing is existential - some fights are better than others.