It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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

I never practice, I always play.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

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

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.