"People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters."

"I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing."

"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."

"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive."

"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."

"You'll see it when you believe it."

"I think and that is all that I am."

"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."

"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."

"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."

"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."

"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]"

"On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette."

"In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known."

"Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard."

"Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do."

"If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal."

"The simplest subjects are the immortal ones."

"An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life."

"It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.""God, the king of artists, was clumsy."

"God, the king of artists, was clumsy."

"Our intention creates our reality."

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."

"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."

"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."

"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back."

"Only the insecure strive for security."

"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."

"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."

"Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius."

"I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."

"To express himself well, the artist should be hidden... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur."

"I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall."

"My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit."

"Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period."

"It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre."

"I have no rules and no methods... no secrets."