It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.

Man's spirit grows hungry for art in the same way his stomach growls for food.

Do not call yourself old. A man is as old as the creative force within him.

From out of pain, beauty.

To be an artist is first to be a manual laborer.

There is no thrill of mortal danger to surpass that of a lone man trying to create something that never existed before.

There's no love without pain.

The most perfect guide is nature. Continue without fail to draw something every day.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

It's so easy to love. The only hard thing is to be loved. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Being mad is even pleasant. But only a madman understands that.

He had always loved God. In his darkest hours he cried out, "God did not create us to abandon us.

One should not become an artist because he can, but because he must. It is only for those who would be miserable without it.

You cannot be firmly certain about anything. You can only have enough courage and strength to do what you consider to be right. Maybe it turns out that was wrong, but still you would have done his, and it is most important.

Morality is similar to religion - it is a somniferous drug which blinds people from seeing the squalor of their lives.

There are neither good nor evil, only the existence and action.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

His mind was like a soup dish, wide and shallow; it could hold a small amount of nearly anything, but the slightest jarring spilled the soup into somebody's lap