A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The true traveler never arrives.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Every time I gaze at stars above, I feel small, big, infinite and connected all at the same time, and tonight on the Amazon is no different.

There is no such thing as a failed test. You will learn every time you challenge yourself.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today I knew it then as purpose.

What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.

I am very down to earth and practical.

I sometimes think, Mary, that it is a mistake to have a dog for a nurse.

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

I've always seen my work as trying to make the connection with men who no one really spends time with.

It is bound to come a moment when what seems close is still very far away.

It's better for the country when each party looks like it stands for something serious, for some big things, but they're not narrow and they're not bought.