A picture is a thing which requires as much knavery, as much malice, and as much vice as the perpetration of a crime. Make it untrue and add an accent of truth.

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.

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

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.

When the mind wants to hope it refuses to listen.

Truth only has one story, while a lie has a dictionary.

Pray for guidance and follow your intuition.

It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

The only loser who walks away from a wise man is the one who walks away.

When you find yourself in bed with an ugly woman, the best thing to do is close your eyes and get on with it

Nissan is recalling almost 135,000 Infiniti G35s to address an airbag problem. When Toyota heard that, they said, 'Airbags! I knew we forgot something.'

There is no person, no theorist so reckless as he who says that the facts speak for themselves.

My message is all about peace.

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!