Be sure to give the same expression to a person's face that you give to his body.

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.

Everything worth loving in this world is difficult.

Practice what you preach. Don't be a staggering image of the same shame you place upon others. Live, love, be free. Most of all be real.

The present is an eternal now.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

No one starts playing my kind of music to make a fortune. But I do want to keep doing what I do and I do want to continue selling records. And I would, eventually, quite like some money.

Shun the praise of men and love the one who, in the fear of the Lord, reprimands you.

Americans expect us to go to Washington for the right reason, and not just to mingle with the right people.

I think God's going to come down and pull civilization over for speeding.