A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

Be yourself, let you come through.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.