"The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy."

"What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished."

"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way."

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either."

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets."

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished."

"A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved."

"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."

"The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible"

"I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."

"What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs."

"A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you."

"The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater."

"I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!"

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."

"Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you."

"People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most."

"Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into."

"If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is ''the quiet acceptance of what is.''"

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others."

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either."

"Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice."

"You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever."

"To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection."

"You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'."

"The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do."

"It's never crowded along the extra mile."

I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

I was a ballerina for a good 12 years. When I was 15 I had to stop. It wasn't a choice, it was an injury that prevented me from going forward in ballet unfortunately. Well, fortunately because I wouldn't be doing what I am doing now if that had not happened.

I was a weird teenager. My mother was actually worried because I didn't have any interest in dating in my teenage years. I had all this desire to pursue my passions like ballet, then sailing, then music, so I didn't have any emptiness to fill.

As an artist, I feel so fortunate to be able to learn from all these great musicians that came before me, when some people have nobody that came before them.

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“Some people care too much. I think it's called love.”

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?”

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

“Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”