Pictures are spiritual beings. The soul of the painter lives within them.

The artist need not know very much, best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.

Sometimes it seems to me that I am capable of absolutely nothing, but that nature through me can accomplish a great deal.

A work becomes a work of art when one re-evaluates the values of nature and adds one's own spirituality.

What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him, and gives him the necessary incitement to work.

Colours in vibration, peeling like silver bells and clanging like bronze bells, proclaiming happiness, passion and love, soul, blood and death.

There cannot be creation without a lot of energy.

The art of an artist must be his own art. It is... always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of ones own, in ones relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

As an artist I am attracted by decadence, by those who exhaust their lives in the shallow pursuits of pleasure. Occasionally, I feel that spiritually I participate in all these kinds of lives.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

Extraordinary magic is woven through ordinary life. Look around!

Your self-talk is the channel of behavior change

The most important thing is transforming our minds, for a new way of thinking, a new outlook: we should strive to develop a new inner world.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

I was trying to control myself because I wanted to just park the car and jump out and do cartwheels. The next dream is to win the world championship.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

Say it with words. Show it with action.

Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.