Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

Just underneath your breaking point lies your true strength.

Hagnon fixes a value to everything. It occurs to Alexander that the man would probably sell his mother for an obol and consider it a deal.

To paraphrase Einstein, insanity is expecting employees to do one thing while rewarding them for doing something else.

When we are confronted by failure and mistakes, we can leave them behind and go on with our lives.

Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

The hardest thing I have done is given up power.

America needs to get over it. We can't control everything. We can't control the storms.

Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.