If you don't know how to play hockey, learn. If you quit, get back out there.
Perhaps it's true that I'm very hard on myself, but that's better than exhibiting mediocre work. . . too few were satisfactory enough to trouble the public with.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
She wanted nothing more than someone to miss, to touch, with whom to speak like a child, with whom to be a child.
It's a bit like the feeling I get when I'm standing on a cliff or high building, looking down at a suicidal drop. I start thinking about what would happen if I stepped off, the rush of the fall, the shattering collision, the quiet emptiness of death. Part of me wants to experience the thrill of complete surrender.
No man can climb the ladder of success without first placing his foot on the bottom rung.
Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting.