Drawing is the honesty of art.

What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

No sapient could sustain happiness all of the time, just as no one could live permanently within anger, or boredom, or grief.

I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading.

I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.

The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead.

Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your path at 32 or 42.

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.

The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature.

Men generally are afraid of a wife who has more understanding than themselves.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.