Do portraits of people in familiar and typical attitudes, above all give to their face the same choice of expression that one gives to their 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.

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

I've always got on with lads, more than I have with girls.

After my study of today's church, my conclusion is that the church is politely bored with God.

Enlightenment is a lot like dying. You might wonder why there aren't more enlightened people. It is because they are afraid to die.

Extraordinary results happen only when you give the best you have to become the best you can be at your most important work.

I've been directed by other actors, and being an actor doesn't make you a good director.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.

I lived in town until I was eight and then I moved nearer the farmland, so I had a mixture.