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

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

I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

Expect nothing but be ready for everything.

Percy: I thought I’d lost my mom forever, and I was stuck on a hill in a thunderstorm fighting this huge bull dude while Grover was passed out wailing. “Food!” It was terrifying, man.

Life is a circle. It spins you around.

You go through so many changes as a child, then you grow up and discover that none of that stuff mattered, except for the impression it made on your mind.

It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on

God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names.

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

They call it golf because all the other four-letter words were taken.