God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

The beauty of God, is God himself.

Control is the inner disease of those who need stability and order to function.

Wanderlei Silva, six feet tall and 205 pounds, boy, until I met you, I didn't know they could stack crap that high.

Dreams never hurt anybody if you keep working right behind the dreams to make as much of them become real as you can.

Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.

Trust is even more important than love.

A writer should have another lifetime to see if he's appreciated.

Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them.

There are people who actually like programming. I dont understand why they like programming.

My dream has always been to suspend myself in space when I write, and lying horizontal in bed is the closest to doing that.