All Quotes

“Every brushstroke is a prayer.”

“To paint is to capture a moment of truth.”

“I seek the divine in the ordinary.”

“Art must be born from observation, not imagination.”

“The chiaroscuro of life is what gives it meaning.”

“There is no beauty without darkness.”

“Painting is a way of seeing the soul.”

“I want to be a millionaire, and I don't ever want a real job. To his University of Houston track coach, Tom Tellez, on his first day of track practice, 1979.”

“I believe that every single event in your life, especially the difficult ones, shapes you and makes you a stronger person.”

“It doesn't matter if you're the best. If you don't have the desire to work hard, you won't succeed.”

“The key to my success is focusing on my goals, not on the obstacles.”

“I always believed that if you set out to be somebody, you could become one.”

“Life is about timing. When you're supposed to be somewhere, you're supposed to be there.”

“I think the greatest gift God gave me was the ability to see things through.”

“I was never one to sit around and wait for things to happen.”

“Every day is a new opportunity to be better than you were yesterday.”

“I wanted to be the best. There was no second place.”

“Linnaeus and homo religiosus,”

“I thank Providence who has guided my destinies, that I now live ; nay, that I live happier than a king of Persia. You know, fathers and fellow”

“Nature does not make any leaps. All plants show an affinity with those around them, according to their geographical location. Philosophia Botanica”

“If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes . Philosophia Botanica (1751), aphorism 210. Trans. Frans A. Stafleu, Linnaeus and the Linnaeans: The Spreading of their Ideas in Systematic Botany, 1735”

“the whole world is full of the glory of God.”

“We say there are as many genera as there are similarly constituted fructifications of different natural species. Fundamenta Botanica (1736). Original in Latin: Genera tot dicimus, quot similes constructae fructifications proserunt diversae Species naturales”

“The principle being accepted that all Species of one Genus have arisen from one mother through different fathers, it must be assumed”

“That in the beginning the Creator created of each natural Order only one plant with reproductive power.”

“That by their various mixings different plants have arisen which belong to the mother's natural order as they are similar to the mother with regard to their fructifications, and are, as it were, species of the order, i.e., genera.”

“We may assume that plants have arisen within the orders, i.e. by genera of one order, may mix with each other. In this was there will arise species that should be referred to the mother's genus as her daughters.”

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“Nature does not proceed by leaps and bounds.”

“To live by medicine is to live horribly.”