An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.

Since art is considered a noble field, art should be used to promote all that is good and noble, and in a noble fashion.

... an artist should paint from the heart, and not always what people expect. Predictability often leads to the dullest work, in my opinion, and we have been bored stiff long enough I think.

The devil has not vanished simply because people refuse to believe he exists, no more than God has.

Evil influence is like a nicotine patch, you cannot help but absorb what sticks to you.

Yet, beauty cannot be forgotten, Eternal Wisdom can never die.

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.