There is nothing more beautiful than nature early in the morning.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too

Your profession is not what brings home your weekly paycheck, your profession is what you're put here on earth to do, with such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling.

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

I am an artist... It's self-evident that what that word implies is looking for something all the time without ever finding it in full. It is the opposite of saying, 'I know all about it. I've already found it.' As far as I'm concerned, the word means, 'I am looking. I am hunting for it. I am deeply involved.'

I believe I do much better for the time being by first copying some good things than by working without that foundation

The uglier, older, meaner, iller, poorer I get, the more I wish to take my revenge by doing brilliant color, well arranged, resplendent.