Like everything genuine, its inner life guarantees its truth. All works of art created by truthful minds without regard for the work's conventional exterior remain genuine for all times...

I never, for instance, have the urge to paint animals 'the way I see them,' but rather the way they are... The way they themselves look at the world and feel their being

We are staunch and true and in rather a champagne mood.

Art has always been and is in its very essence the boldest departure from nature. It is the bridge into the spirit world.

Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

Today we are searching for things in nature that are hidden behind the veil of appearance... We look for and paint this inner, spiritual side of nature.

The great artists do not seek their forms in the midst of the past, but take the deepest soundings they can of the genuine, profoundest of their age.

What appears spectral today will be natural tomorrow.

Art will liberate itself from the needs and desires of men. No longer will we paint a forest ora horseas we like oras theyappear to us, but as they really are.

Todayart is moving in a direction of which our fathers would never even have dreamed.We stand before the new pictures as in a dream and we hear the apocalyptic horsemen in the air.

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

Because of my schooling, my fate would always be a little different from my friends.

Accessories are key - nothing beats a cool Panama hat or statement shades - look to Maison Michel or Miu Miu for inspiration.

The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.

I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process.

I believe He wants us to love others so much that we go to extremes to help them.

Your state of consciousness today is not the same as it used to be or as it will be in two weeks or a couple of years from now.

Most people are really nuts and that's fascinating to me.

But emotion cannot be buried by words, though it can be aroused by them.

Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion.