There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

The principal person in a picture is light.

You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.

Aw... don’t be so upset. Come here and sit on my face.

Turn your stumbling blocks into stepping stones.

There are few things more dangerous than a mixture of power, arrogance and incompetence.

Eating when you're not hungry and taking in that amount of food is exhausting.

Oh yeah, waiting sucks.

You can take the guy out of the neighborhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.

Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!