Art isn't something you marry it's something you rape.

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.

Love is like a flower. Its upright when its in harmony and withered when its dead.

Your life will fly by, so make sure you're the pilot.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

Teachers are directed to instruct their pupils... and to awaken in them a sense of their responsibility toward the community of the nation.

Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.

The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.

The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to it, which is the result of the full exertion of a frivolous one.

If you say it was the "last" time, it might well turn out to be the last. What you meant was "the most recent time I was here".

Such is the emptiness of human enjoyment that we are always impatient of the present. Attainment is followed by neglect, and possession by disgust.

There can be no true discipline without love...only compliance.