Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

You must know what you do with your time if you must become great in this life.

I want a world where men live free from fear and coercion.

Getting out of bed with a smile on your face most days is the start of being and knowing you are successful.

Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different.

Despair is a form of certainty, certainty that the future will be a lot like the present or will decline from it.

Most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

Don't you realize," Merlin said to his pupil, "that the history of the universe has brought us here to this second?

To fully embark on the whole Phish experience, it's all about going to the city they built beforehand, with the fans and tent city or whatever it's called.

The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.