I used to meditate until I learned to stop thinking.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.

Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye, it is in the mind.

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

It's through discipline and tremendous disappointment and failure that you arrive at what it is you must paint.

I'm very careful not to have ideas, because they're inaccurate.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

That which takes us by surprise-moments of happiness-that is inspiration.

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

Love more than you loved your ex-girlfriend, if your present girlfriend feels your feeling then you will feel most happiest moment than your ex-gf.

And when two people understand each other in their inmost hearts, Their words are sweet and strong like the fragrance of orchids.

I'm still the same guy you knew five minutes ago.

Imagine how extraordinary the world would be if everyone believed the only man capable of evil…was himself.

I hold an old-fashioned notion that a happy marriage is the crown of a woman’s life.

We need a total renunciation of war. We must renounce war totally, because now we can destroy all life on earth.

Behind the transient reality, there is something else. It is a deeper, more permanent and unchanging reality that we Buddhists call nirvana.

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia