To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

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.

Writing is the supreme solace.

You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self keeps waiting at the bus stop for your unfulfilled return!

It's that I don't like white paper backgrounds. A woman does not live in front of white paper. She lives on the street, in a motor car, in a hotel room.

[On Sitting Bull:] The contents of his pockets were often emptied into the hands of small, ragged little boys, nor could he understand how so much wealth should go brushing by, unmindful of the poor.

I only know that from wherever it is that we're going there can be no turning back

I think about what I say. I don't give stock answers. I'm not trying to cultivate an image with the public, like several of the top players do.

When love is the trend, there is no room for violence and war.

Any time you have questions when you're watching something, it's good - it makes you want to watch more.

Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end.

Men want a challenge, but they want a challenge they can win.