A true work of art can stand many seeings, revealing anew at each seeing.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

How to paint the landscape: First you make your bow to the landscape. Then you wait, and if the landscape bows to you, then, and only then, can you paint the landscape.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

Painting is like Golf, the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture.

Don't everlastingly read messages into paintings - there's the Daisy - you don't rave over or read messages into it - you just look at that bully little flower - isn't that enough?

Art is not great. Music is not great. It's just that they tickle us. When one steadfastly refuses greatness - then and then only can the wonderful thing we call art be created.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

Art is just a series of natural gestures. For God's sake, don't try to be artistic - all wild animals walk the same way.

The sweetest victories come after the bitterest defeats.

I came up with idea of a solar airplane flying around the world with no fuel - that would be a beautiful message in terms of technology, the energy of the future and the environment.

Private passions grow tired and wear themselves out; political passions, never.

It wasn't just one journalist getting it wrong, everybody was getting it wrong.

I want to be untouchable and beautiful and completely dead inside.

I think one ages and one dates. I tend to have a good deal of difficulty in liking some of the new poets.

Political changes and reforms do not usually favor the general populace. They benefit those who are positioned to best organize and advocate for their policies.

The real truth is splintered and spread throughout time.

Habit is overcome by habit.

The Riviera isn't only a sunny place for shady people.