Even in front of nature one must compose.

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.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

This world is all vanity. It is a tempest hurling us from one sorrow to another.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

Groups like The Mountain Brothers just have to keep on doing what they're doing - just make it dope and just make it different. And not try to compete with other people of color.

And thus we all are nighing The truth we fear to know: Death will end our crying For friends that come and go.

I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.

I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine.

God's truth always agrees with itself.

Excellence does not begin in Washington.

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.