Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

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

Purpose is the ultimate reason for your existence.

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Give, but give until it hurts.

The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.

In spite of what Thomas Jefferson wrote, all men may be created equal, but not to all women.

Only in a concert situation do I have access to people directly to preach to them, and I don't believe that the bigger your platform is, the more people will pay attention.

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

I've spent my life making blunders.

Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status.