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.

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.

History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.

Pride is not the opposite of shame, but it's source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.

Friendship and money: oil and water.

Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

Be Love; there is nothing greater.

Those who never make mistakes lose a great many chances to learn something

A lot of Hollywood couples get married young and wind up growing out of their relationship.

My true love hath my heart, and I have his

Siva, O Siva, carry my boat to the other shore!