Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

Death was a lens that would reveal things as they really were: what was important would assume its true importance what was unimportant would recede into the shadows.

There is no shortcut to confidence building

Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is color that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

After you have made your commitment to say no to what no longer serves you, you will probably be invited to demonstrate that you really mean it.

You ever wonder if Adam and Eve were just the puppies God dumped because they wouldn't house-train?

The goal is not to make you a smarter sinner but to make you like the Savior.

In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us.