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

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.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

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.

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

She smiled the most extraordinary smile and Egg knew his life would never be the same again.

The modern state does not comprehend how anyone can be guided by something other than itself. In its eyes pluralism is treason.

Life may take away happiness. But it can't take away having had it.

Nature speaks in symbols and in signs.

Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists

The peace of the world concerns only body and time but the peace, the joy, that Christ gives enriches the soul for eternity

The question of how and why the encrustations and rigidifications of human emotional life are brought about led directly into the realm of vegetative life.

I described the euro as a burning building with no exits and so it has proved for some of the countries in it.