You can't make a perfect painting. We can see perfection in our minds. But we can't make a perfect painting.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

That sense of happiness just out beyond my reach - I'm not sure I'd grasped that exactly, but I'd got something close to it, contentment maybe, or at least a functioning routine with regular rewards.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

The devil’s attacks are proof of his powerlessness before us

He who runs from a challenge runs from an opportunity.

Cartels have spread and will spread as long as the world lacks an effective mechanism by which balanced expansion may be achieved without a resulting disruption of prices.

The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.

I'm not insane. This is very simple, very straightforward. Provided he doesn't kill me, its foolproof.

One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

If man reflects on the changes and transformations which follow one another like wave after wave and their rapidity, he will despise everything which is perishable.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.