If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.
The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.
Patiently and with industry did I apply myself to study, for although I felt the impossibility of giving life to my productions, I did not abandon the idea of representing nature.
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
My most important quality or property is curiosity. And that had its beginning in what I was going to do with my life.
Balance, peace, and joy are the fruit of a successful life. It starts with recognizing your talents and finding ways to serve others by using them.
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Some of my favorite pieces are from thrift shops. When I find something I really love, I live, work and sleep in it.
I think women realise that I love women, and very often women seem to love me.
Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
I love you more than my own skin.
You study, you learn, but you guard the original naivete. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover.
Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.
I kind of have a Victorian sensibility - I don't understand stuff until I can classify it and name it.
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself.
