We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Being an artist means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confidence in the storms of spring without fear that after them may come no summer

At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world.

My art is representational by choice....if the art of painting is to survive, it must describe and express people, their lives and times. It must communicate.

There are moments in which a rose is more important than a piece of bread

Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking.

I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.