No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

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.

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.

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.

All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.

Goodness is something chosen. When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man.

You've heard that old expression from Shakespeare, 'Just speak the speech'? The words themselves will take you to the reality of the character. And so this led me to interview people.

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

It is a duty not only to punish, but to prevent all manner of evil.

Each actor requires a different language.

I believe in freedom Freedom's apparently all I need But who's ever been free in this world? Who has never had to bleed in this world?

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.