It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

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.

You will experience 100 transformative moments every year.

I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.

I've always had a sneaking fondness for Martin Van Buren. He wrote his autobiography, you know, and never once mentioned his wife. Now that's what I call a mans man.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

A fantastic golf course and venue. It's one of those places that you always look forward to going back to...no matter how many times you have been there before.

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

We're all united in this, that every human being migrates through time, that the place we grew up in in our childhood is gone when we're in our 50s and 60s and 70s.

I had made what I believe was one of the more valuable decisions of my business life. This was to confine all efforts solely to making major gains in the long-run.

I tend to close my eyes when I look at people anymore.

Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it.