I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.

I keep telling myself I don't practice enough to be a perfectionist. And I don't practice enough to get mad. So my temper has subdued and my attitude is subdued.

Ego gets you inches but it doesn't get you impact.

Palin is smart, politically skilled, courageous and likable. Her convention and debate performances were impressive.

My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.

Well, I'm sold. I'll take one America.

The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.

In other words, more violent tornadoes would, if anything, be a sign of 'global cooling', not 'global warming'.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.