You get whatever accomplishment you are willing to declare.

Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.

Anyone who doesn't feel the crosses simply doesn't get that country.

The days you work are the best days.

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.