My will exceeds my talents.

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.

The answer must be, I think, that the beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. The least we can do is try to be there.

Speaking Akil’s name around Stefan felt like throwing gasoline on a bushfire." ~ Muse

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

I met the Radicals and we liked each other reciprocally.

I want to be left alone.

He grinned. “That’s because pixies are ever-after. We’re magic, baby. Just ask Matalina.

I could write songs as bad as Wham's if I really felt the urge to, but what's the point?

I have a very lively and colourful show. It's two hours of hits and the music speaks for itself.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.