The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

All of our dreams can come true if we just have the courage to pursue them.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

When you can't change the direction of the wind, just adjust your sails.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security

How you do one thing, is how you do everything. Be aware.

Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and go do it. Because what the world needs is more people who have come alive

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

We don't see things the way they are. We see them the way we are

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.

Welcome every morning with a smile. Look on the new day as another special gift from your Creator, another golden opportunity.

I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.

I invent nothing, I rediscover.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.

Why should I paint dead fish, onions and beer glasses? Girls are so much prettier.

An artist's instinct is more refined than the typical mortal's.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Architecture should be dedicated to keeping the outside out and the inside in.

Good architecture lets nature in.

Architecture begins where engineering ends.

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

They tell you that the great painters mixed blood with their pigments. It is not true; the compound used was brains.

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.

There is in every artist's studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist's discipline prevailed against his imagination

Art is art, even when unsuccessful.

Picasso would give up cubism just to capture your curves.

His soul palpitating with love of art...

Listen carefully to first criticisms made of your work. Note just what it is about your work that critics don't like � then cultivate it. That's the only part of your work that's individual and worth keeping.

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul and you answer.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

What you often see in a lesser work of art is a subject captured perfectly and never set free

The question of common sense is always what is it good for? a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

My inspiration is art... because without art, we would just be stuck with reality.

If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else.

While I recognize the necessity for a basis of observed reality... true art lies in a reality that is felt.

I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum

A painting is what you make of it, besides which, 'Moon, Weeping' has a better ring to it than 'Paintbrush, Dripping.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation