The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.

One can fool life for a long time, but in the end it always makes us what we were intended to be.

The true painter strives to paint what can only be seen through his world.

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk - and to act.

Man knows that the world is not made on a human scale; and he wishes that it were.

There's no such thing as a grown up person.

Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.