“It takes a long time to become young.”

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The path to youth takes a lifetime.

Painting isn’t an aesthetic operation; it’s a form of magic designed as mediator between this strange hostile world and us.

We don’t grow older we grow riper.

Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The more technique you have the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is the less there is.

The purpose of Art is to create enthusiasm.

Everything you can imagine is real.

The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.

A painting only lives in the eye of the beholder.

What one does is what counts. Not what one had the intention of doing.

The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.

Reality is to be found in lightness and darkness.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

I need to remind myself all the time that being afraid of things going wrong, is not the way to make things right. All fear has ever done is try destroy any existing hope I have.

I do only what I like. If we do something we don’t like, we will become someone else.

Add a few drops of venom to a half truth and you have an absolute truth.

A ruler wishing to win should not trust a captured enemy even if he may be extending had to be friend. Because deep rooted enmity, however, concealed, will surely come to light.

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

The body is just a water bubble. The mind is like a mad monkey. Do not follow either the body or the mind. Follow the Conscience. It is above the mind. It is permanent. It is the voice of God, the voice of unchanging truth inside you.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.