I do not paint what I see, but what I saw.

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

The world of possibilities surround you, if thy will look.

Suicide isn't really about death, though. It's about change. Release.

Mam said I was growing up. I felt that I was dying.

I've lost so many battles than I can even remember. What I never knew, though, was that I was actually stronger than I thought I was.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

Making movies is really hard, and it can be humbling. And once you put them out into the world, you can't control how people will respond to it.

She's coming here with Aer Lingus.

I love my mother-in-law and I think I'm a really good one, too.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

Success is failure inside out.