If a man wants to be an artist, he should never look at pictures.

There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.

Look at nature, work independently, and solve your own problems.

I regret very much that I have painted a picture that requires any description.

The Sun will not rise or set without my notice and thanks.

The life that I have chosen gives me my full hours of enjoyment.

Artists should never look at pictures, but should stutter in a language of their own.

When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.

You will see, in the future I will live by my watercolors.

I prefer every time a picture composed and painted outdoors. The thing is done without your knowing it.

All is lovely outside my house and inside my house and myself.

Your soul has truly important information to share because it sees, hears, feels and knows from a totally expansive perspective.

Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

I feel kind of depressed today... Do you ever have the feeling that life has passed you by? Worse than that... Sometimes I think life and I are going in opposite directions!

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil].

The greatest fault of a penetrating wit is to go beyond the mark.

I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.

The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.

Boldness in itself is genius.

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

There’s no such thing as ready,” she says. “There’s only willing.