It is only after years of preparation that the young artist should touch color - not color used descriptively, that is, but as a means of personal expression.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

Bad art has the power to deform a people just as good art generates new reflection, growth, vision, and hope.

Sin is too great an evil for man to meddle with. His attempts to remove it do but increase it, and his endeavours to approach God in spite of it aggravate his guilt.

I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you

As learnèd commentators viewIn Homer more than Homer knew.

Certainty generally is illusion and repose is not the destiny of man.

I don't believe in proving a point to anybody. Nobody is that important.

I will only take something or agree to do something that I feel like I understand, and inherent in understanding is empathy.

No committee could ever come up with anything as revolutionary as a camel - anything as practical and as perfectly designed to perform effectively under such difficult conditions.

Looking backward at what has been lost, I feel sad, then indifferent, and at last relieved.

This telegram is a work of art if I say it is.