He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

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.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

My life held endless prospects, and I could've lived it so many different ways.

I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I'm a particular favourite with young men with earrings.

I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.

Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see daylight again after coming through a long dark tunnel? Always try to see life around ya as if you'd just come out of a tunnel.

Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.

[quoting someone else] the American constitution is a document designed by geniuses to be eventually interpreted by idiots

We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want.

You may be whatever you resolve to be.

Innovation is the process of turning ideas into manufacturable and marketable form.