He was a victim of his own integrity, which forced him to do his best, even when he would have preferred to do nothing at all.

Someday my paintings will be hanging in the Louvre. [Vincent Van Gogh]

The best romance is inside marriage; the finest love stories come after the wedding, not before.

There are no faster or firmer friendships than those formed between people who love the same books.

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book.

Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

Talent is cheap; dedication is expensive. It will cost you your life.

Pleasure is one of the most important things in life, as important as food or drink.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

A man who has not suffered has nothing to tell with his paintings.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

Sometimes I think to talk too much about music almost cheapens it

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

Hate is baggage. Life's too short to be pissed off all the time. It's just not worth it.

The function of the creative artist consists of making laws, not in following laws already made.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

There is a story of an Oxford student who once remarked, "I despise all Americans, but have never met one I didn't like."

You can't be both happy and ambitious.

They've done the old-fashioned things well; they've kicked the ball, they've headed it.

Intellectual modesty is humility as to what I know; intellectual humility is modesty as to what I do not know