Once they witnessed one of his painting sold at auction for $100,000. And asked how you do it, he said, 'I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.'

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.

Teamwork is the best ever investment. If I make 3 and you make 5, together we will not make 8. We will make 15. Leaders build active teams!

I made the mistake of working at the world's largest telescopes and now show classic health degradation that is associated with that biologically toxic environment.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

All good art is an indiscretion.

The only way to be sure of catching a train is to miss the one before it.

We will first understand how simple the universe is when we recognize how strange it is.

Despite his infirmities, Strom Thurmond showed up to work every day and did not miss a Senate vote in his final year, though no one is sure if a shouted 'Bingo!' counted as a yea or a nay.

Freddie is great. At a time when everybody around was doing God knows what, Queen was making music.

You know, you want to be outrageous when you're young, so all the young people say, "Oooh . . ." Now my tactics are different.

I aint dead, I aint done, I ain't scared, I aint run, no matter what, no matter what, Still I stand