I don't mind being miserable as long as I'm painting well

A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

I was a fantastic student until ten, and then my mind began to wander.

There's a complete distaste in the Western mind for even seeing that chicken foot.

You know the mind is an astonishing, long-living, erotic thing.

Painting and calligraphy make people calm and put them in the right frame of mind.