I should like to be famous and 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.

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

Life is like one big blueprint, if you don't make plans then your future will not be built

When you understand who you are by knowing what God created you to do, you have no room for becoming jealous over what someone else is doing.

Man.

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

When you introduce competition into the public school system, most studies show that schools start to do better when they are competing for students.

The expressive techniques of painting are capable of conveying an analogy but not an impossible photograph of a moment.

Space. The continual becoming: invisible fountain from which all rhythms flow and to which they must pass. Beyond time or infinity

I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education.

Leadership is about having principles. A leader must have a vision and principles that will endure for all time and must always be true to these principles, applying them to changing circumstances

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.