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.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.