Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.

I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.

Say someone tells me their name - that name can turn into a taste or a color and that's how I categorize it in my mind. It's an easy way of categorizing things.

What you focus on gets prettier

A man’s real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.

You are blood of my blood and you will answer to me when I command.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.

When his apprenticeship was finished (the candidate for Knighthood) was received into the Knightly Order by a ritual of sacramental awe.

It took me time to understand my water lilies. I had planted them for the pleasure of it; I grew them without ever thinking of painting them.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

I don't want to appeal to everybody. [After all] everybody doesn't appeal to me.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

In real life, I don't fall in love with the guy who wines and dines me, I fall in love with the flaws and the humanity.