An artist must approach his work in the spirit of the criminal about to commit a crime.

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.

You will have five hundred million little bells, and I shall have five hundred million springs of fresh water.

You don't have free will when you have lung cancer.

The world will be at war as long as the mind is at war with itself.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

A man has to know his limitations.

I wouldn't be worth my salt if I weren't attracting some controversy and criticism. Everyone in the world who has done something in life has attracted criticism.

The secret of living well is not in having all the answers but in pursuing unanswerable questions in good company.

A career is a career, but youre a mother until you die.

Rota's personality is compatible with mine.