“My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.”

It is important to express oneself…provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they’re not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It’s a dream that won’t come true.

I don’t think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that’s all I would have asked for, for I know I’m worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

In love, there’s sentiment and passion; I know only sentiment through myself, passion through others. I hear certain voices I know say: sentiment=love of the intellect; I can answer: passion=the love of the body.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

Delve deeper into your dreams to capture the visualized, yet unseen.

Delve deeper into your dreams to capture the visualized, yet unseen.

It’s not my perfect performance that captures God’s attention. It’s my complete dependence on Him that He notices.

Something in your eyes captured my soul, and every night I see you in my dreams. You’re all I know. I can’t let go.

I don’t try and be dark, but there are obviously darker emotions that I want to capture sometimes.

Doo-wop is special music to me because it’s so straightforward and melody-driven and captures emotions.

Whether it be a reggae song, rock song, a love song, the main thing was just to, whatever I was feeling, to try to capture that emotion.

Everything is good as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death’s horses they run in span.