In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

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.

By exchanging quality time for 'turn-up' times, what many of today's wayward youngsters have become - men and women of the village have failed them.

Unless we base our sense of identity upon the truth of who we are, it is impossible to attain true happiness.

In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: its the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I just like working with smart people.

Take Christ out of the gospel, and you take its very heart out. He has not only originated a system, but He has put Himself into it, as its very life and soul and power.

I would like to provoke ambiguous responses in my readers.

If I was able to tell my story with the passion I felt, my lecture might help others find a path to fulfilling their own dreams.

I certainly have dreams of being on a Broadway stage someday, if they'll have me. I think I want to stay really open to whatever possibilities present themselves.

I feel lucky that I can have people laugh solidly for a whole hour by just saying what I think and getting paid for it.