When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Power is not powerful without wisdom.

Ranking where people stand in your life and who they are to you helps you determine who you value the most and therefore where best to spend your time.

children need love most when they don't deserve it

Ultimately, my hope is to amaze myself.

I use quite a bit in my kitchen, but the one thing that's an absolute must would have to be my high-speed blender.

They both (Thalia and Hera) glared at her, and for three long seconds, Piper wasn’t sure which one of them was going to kill her first.

I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of.

The health of life on Earth depends on its oceans. But unless we save our seas from the growing mounds of pop bottles, cigarette butts and plastic trash, soon there won't be much healthy sea left.