I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

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.

It is painful for the plant which is myself to live in the atmosphere and light of this world. Somewhere an element is lacking which would permit me to continue.

Clear out all of those doubts and fears. Let the past be the past. It's time.

It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.

When a person knows and can't make the others understand, what does he do?

Rex Tillerson does massive deals in Russia. He does massive deals for the company, not for himself, for the company.

I'm just trying to take what the defense gives me.

C.S. Lewis had a big influence on me in this spiritual realm - this sort of sense of longing. A longing for a knowledge that is just outside of our reach, a knowledge for a spiritual connection.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

Finding faults is for those with tired minds.

I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.