Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance...

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.

That which cures all worldly miseries, is called ‘Scientific’ Knowledge.

Sometimes there are not the right words for my thoughts. Speech feels like it's not a natural way to communicate. This is when typing the words makes my thoughts come out easier.

A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.

They say never trust a skinny chef, but the fact is, to stay healthy when you're a chef means you have to work twice as hard.

Inability is often the mother of restriction, and restriction is the great mother of inventive performance.

Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

If there's something that I really need to say that I can't say by speaking to someone, I usually write it in a song or a letter to someone.

A story can sing the truth and not just tell it.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world.