Through my art I have tried to explain my life and its meaning. I have also intended to help others to clarify their lives.

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

Wisdom is the ability to see the invisible

Handle the little things well

Having lived with kings, I have become a king in my own home.

The UK is one of the only nations on earth that has actually met and even exceeded its goals under the Kyoto Protocol.

I'm one of the best-loved psychologists in the United States, but I'm also probably the most hated one.

I think that two-dimensional film will always be here to stay because it always has its place, but 3D does too.

You cannot make mistakes in the Champions League.

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

Live without envy, spend your peaceful years Unknown to fame, and choose your peers for friends.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.