I became an animal painter because I loved to move among animals. I would study an animal and draw it in the position it took, and when it changed to another position I would draw that.

My dream is to show the fire which comes out of the horses' nostrils; the dust which rises from their hooves. I want this to be an infernal waltz.

if we don't always understand animals, they always understand us.

The epithets of imbeciles have never bothered me.

The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

The eye-is it not the mirror of the soul in all living creatures?

The horse is, like man, the most beautiful and the most miserable of creatures.

But the suit I wear is my work attire, and nothing else.

Knowing the truth is important, but following the truth is much more important.

I stood for almost an hour in a line of shuffling, bitter - eyed late mailers (Christmas is such a carefree, low - pressure time - that's one of the things I love about it), ...

Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'.

What could possibly be more fantastic than reality?

Freaks are revolutionaries, and revolutionaries are freaks

I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

The only thing more painful than being an active forgetter is to be an inert rememberer.

The sky is my prayer, the birds are my prayer, the wind in the trees is my prayer, for God is all in all.