If you hear a voice within you saying, “You are not a painter,” then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

The first time you do something only happens once.

Not what we have but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well.

Tenderness is the most modest form of love.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

One must go on working silently, trusting the result to the future.

Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Take a canvas. Put a mark on it. Put another mark on it.