For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Most often a country is poor when its educational system is poor and individuals do not strive to become educated.

The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.

You can't draw lines in the sand like that. Humour's a tsunami that doesn't care about your little lines.

Chance usually favors the prudent man.

Our age is bent on trying to make the barren tree of skepticism fruitful by tying the fruits of truth on its branches.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

I believe that historians and analysts of historical events need the authority of facts supplied by living witnesses to the events, which they make their subject.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.