I've learned you have to live a long time to forgive everybody.
Inside of every artist is a nervous person trying to calm down.
I don't have to do anything, and I'm doing it.
An artist keeps trying to finish herself.
Once you've created a masterpiece, relax.
We've all been exiled from childhood.
The greatest artists have the museum of their own mind.
How nice not to have anybody waiting for me!
We turn to art when we want freedom from our own story.
Art teaches you what you've been seeing isn't true.
Too much truth goes a little way.
There's nothing more comforting than an old person with bright eyes.
Yesterday used to be the future.
Poetry can escape depression only through sexual satisfaction.
The object of art is stillness.
Art is what's left after you've drained the pain from nature.
How would we know happiness without the birds?
Education violates our own sense of time.
How can I be wrong? i'm still here.
If you realize other people exist, you've taken a great step.
How debilitating feeling sorry for yourself is.
If you don't want to make the journey, forget the destination.
Only a blind man really knows what he looks like.
Just give them something to think about. It will rectify most states of mind.
Don't get anyone under 50 interested in spirituality.
I could have died at 41 and not missed myself.
This is the last time it will be the first time.
When will you learn to say, "I've done far too much"?
Roses for Suzanne (july 9, 1986-may 6, 2012): http://www.pbase.com/wwp/suzanne2
"There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so, he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted."
Henri Matisse
