Don't waste your youth growing up.

To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.

If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for a moment.

I decided that if I could paint that flower on a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

To draw you must close your eyes and sing.

I paint what I think, not what I see.

When I haven't any blue I use red.

A painter paints to unload himself of feelings and visions.

We are all born children, the trick is remaining one.

I don't work from nature, I work like nature.

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.

Paradise is to love many things with a passion.

Lord, protect me from what I want!

Music and art are the guiding lights of the world.

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

The purpose of art is to wash the dust of daily life off our souls.

Unless your work gives you trouble, it is no good.

We don't grow older, we grow riper.