“Fulfill your potential. That’s the way to happiness.”

Anything can be painted without representation.

It’s not about facts, it’s about feelings. It’s about remembering feelings and happiness.

There’s not any hint of nature. And still everybody responds, I think.

I paint with my back to the world

When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts.

Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it …. as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.

I think everyone sees beauty. Art is a way to respond

There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall …. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

A definition of art is that it makes concrete our most subtle emotions. I think the highest form of art is music. It’s the most abstract of all art expression.

The artist works by awareness of his own state of mind.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

One must see the ideal in one’s own mind. It is like a memory – an awareness -of perfection.

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it’s a very mysterious thing, isn’t it?

They are immeasurable, completely lacking in substance. They are perfect and sublime. This is the subject matter of art.

Withdraws and makes itself up again pulls itself together with pride towers with pride rushes forward into imaginary conquest crashes in frustration withdraws with remorse and repentance pulls itself together with new resolution

Just strengthening that theme that America is a place of opportunity and hoping to inspire people to fulfill those opportunities, and to want more, and to want better, and to see the places we can go. So many people identify with me because of the place that I come from.

Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

Is it possible to fulfill this task, is it possible to achieve the definite victory of Socialism in one country without the combined efforts of the proletarians of several advanced countries? No, it is impossible.

It’s a very good thing to teach kids to finish what they started in the sense of fulfilling their commitments.

One central need in life is to fulfill its own potential.

Every generation must find its mission and fulfill it, as Fanon said – or betray it. So it is not something that you can write up on the wall, saying this is what has to be done. Every generation has to discover what it needs to do.

That is why, according to this newer psychology, Christianity has already fulfilled its biological mission, and it is impossible for the modern man to understand its original significance.

A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.