“The quality of a painter depends on the amount of past he carries with him.”

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.

The world doesn’t make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

It takes a long time to become young.

The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness.

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species.

Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person’s own mind, than on the externals in the world.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

Your tomorrow depends entirely on what you do today.

The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries.

The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.