There is always hope, as long as the canvases are empty.

Art is a line around your thoughts.

On my first days here I did not start work immediately but, as planned, I took it easy for a few days - flicked through books, studied Japanese art a little.

If the weather is good I go into the nearby wood - there I am painting a small beech forest (in the sun) with a few conifers mixed in. This takes until 8 'o clock.

There is no self-portrait of me.

Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

True relaxation, which would do me the world of good, does not exist for me.

Whoever wants to know something about me - as an artist which alone is significant - they should look attentively at my pictures and there seek to recognise what I am and what I want.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me. I'm a painter who paints day in day out, from morning till evening - figure pictures and landscapes, more rarely portraits.

There is nothing that special to see when looking at me.

When you have grace to speak kind words, declare the sacred-words.

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

It wasn't until I was about 17 or 18 years old that I got into music

My gym has two-pound weights. If you're using two-pound weights, how did you even open the door to the gym? What's your dream? To pump up and open your mail?

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

A LeBron James team is never desperate.

If you actually keep things very organized and clutter-free, you can have more furniture than you think you can in a small space.

A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.

If a body can no longer be accentuated, it should be abstracted.