“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”

There is no blue without yellow and without orange.

One must never let the fire go out in one’s soul, but keep it burning.

It is very necessary to work in the garden and see the flowers growing.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

I put my heart and soul into my work, and I have lost my mind in the process.

There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

In an artist’s life, death is perhaps not the most difficult thing.

The only time I feel alive is when I’m painting.

If you end up falling in love with someone, it’s because of them. If you end up hating someone, it’s because of you.

I wish they would take me as I am.

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say ‘he feels deeply, he feels tenderly’.

Success is sometimes the outcome of a whole string of failures.

Conscience is a man’s compass.

One of the hardest things to do is to paint darkness which nonetheless has light in it.

The attempt to develop a sense of humor and to see things in a humorous light is some kind of a trick learned while mastering the art of living.

Many people today attempt to draw differences between communism and socialism – there are none.

I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

When we attempt to exercise power or control over someone else, we cannot avoid giving that person the very same power or control over us.

Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.

My rule was I will not answer a question that attempts to project how I will rule in a case that might come before the court.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.