Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.
Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.
I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.
You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.
The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.
What attracted me was less art itself than the artist’s life and all that it meant for me: the idea of creativity and freedom of expression and action. I had been attracted to painting and drawing for a long time, but it was not an irresistible passion; what I wanted, at all costs, was to escape the monotony of life.
If one man in the country could take all the money, what was the use of passing any bills about it?
Christian witness is concrete: words without actions are empty.
Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
Let me tell you something big: Give importance to little things!