Youth must go ahead and prosper. These young painters are all very talented people, but they all paint frescoes.

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

[We let] the universality of fantasy, of once upon a time, allow escapist fiction to be more than just that - to also bring us home.

God has a most wicked sense of humor.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

I've been an actor since I was a kid.

It is better, I think, to begin easily and get your running to be smooth and relaxed and then to go faster and faster.

A poet must need be before his own age, to be even with posterity

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

Magic lives in curves, not angles.

A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

God forbid, men should be jealous of knowledge as they are jealous of women.