Drawing is the sum of directions.

To use color well is as difficult as for a fish to pass from water to air or earth.

You can only learn to paint by drawing, for drawing is a way of reserving a place for color in advance.

You must be classic. Put yourselves before the model in a workmanlike spirit.

The tolerance power is the mother of egoism!

The powerful are like a compressor, they will grind into paste everything on their way

The only difference between you and a dream is I haven’t woken up with you

I'd studied English since the first grade but considered it a murky language, one whose grammar seemed to have been made up on the fly

I felt the kind of peace you feel when you come in from a hot afternoon and pour cold water over your feet.

It is one thing to teach a dynamic Oriental philosophy and religious code; it is quite another to put such a discipline to the test by successfully living it in the face of ridicule.

Ah, music! What a beautiful art! But what a wretched profession!

I have a car that I call Flattery because it gets me nowhere.

I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men.

Life is multi-layered and there's no way I could do my life justice in one pat answer.