When you are young and without success you have only a few friends. Then later on when you are rich and famous you still have a few ... if you are lucky.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

they always mentioned his name. For her, it was as if they were constantly squeezing lemon juice on an open wound.

I envision a world in which the vast majority of us are actively striving toward our potential by serving others through mediums we are most passionate.

New morality is nothing more than the old immorality brought up to date.

...[P]erhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return---that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness.

Well, I don't believe there are subjects that can't be painted, but there are a lot of things that I personally can't paint.

Pity the man who has a favorite restaurant, but not a favorite author. He's picked out a favorite place to feed his body, but he doesn't have a favorite place to feed his mind!

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

So much work went into this book [ "The Thorn & The Blossom"] - you can probably tell from looking at the art and overall design.

I close my eyes while driving and just sing along. I always open them again in time.

The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.