The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
Learning never exhausts the mind.
The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
Life without love is like a tree without blossom and fruit.
Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.
There must be more to life than having everything.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect.
Who sows virtue reaps honor.
We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Take pleasure in your dreams; relish your principles and drape your purest feelings on the heart of a precious lover.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.
There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.
Life well spent is long.
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?
Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.
For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
One eye sees, the other feels.
If my survival caused another to perish, then death would be sweeter and more beloved.
