Art is really a battle.

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.

It doesn't matter how much his mother loves him

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man.

Fourth period I have "life skills", which is what they call gym when you're old enough to be offended by forced physical activity (Elody thinks they should call it slavery instead, for accuracy).

I really lived life to its fullest and that got me in trouble from time to time.

The whole of technology depends on a scientific background, and of course technology can be used for evil purposes. You can't blame science for that.

I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to want one.

Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend.

A society of children first is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.