“I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.”

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.

Beauty? To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to.

People who try to explain pictures are usually barking up the wrong tree.

Don’t waste your youth growing up.

There’s nothing more difficult than a line.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Go and do the things you can’t. That is how you get to do them.

Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.

All art is erotic.

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

The older you get, the stronger the wind gets and it’s always in your face.

When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.

I don’t believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off.

The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

You are something new in this world. Never before, since the beginning of time, has there ever been anybody exactly like you; and never again throughout all the ages to come will there ever be anybody exactly like you again.

Beginning well is a momentary thing; finishing well is a lifelong thing.

God’s LOVE is Like an Ocean; You can See its Beginning, but not its end.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

The greatest romance is with the Infinite. You have no idea how beautiful life can be. When you suddenly find God everywhere, when He comes and talks to you and guides you, the romance of divine love has begun.