The sight of stars makes me dream.

The sunflower is mine, in a way.

Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Art is to console those who are broken by life.

How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.

I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.

If one truly loves nature one finds beauty everywhere.

I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

Of whom can we think well when it is believed that if nothing bad is done to you, this has been a kindness?

Insecure people put others down to raise themselves up.

I never planned on being a live performer. My whole forte was about being in the studio, producing, playing the piano on recording sessions. I was all about the studio.

Stay in the present. And that's not a glib answer. The way to stay in the present is to have a love for what you're doing and a vitality and a sense of well-being that is generated by your art.

Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?

Shakespeare brings us to know ourselves. Dante, with his dissection of all others, bids us to know one another.

You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!

I get the thumbs up like I'm hailing a yellow cab.

I don't dwell on my age. It might limit what I can do. As long as I have my mind and health, it's just a number.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.