One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings.

Who told you that one paints with colors? One makes use of colors, but one paints with emotions.

You can be sure that most of the high positions in the country would be empty if one were admitted only after an examination as severe as the one we painters must pass.

How many attempts, now happy, now unhappy!... He who has not felt the difficulties of his art does nothing that counts.

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.

Everything for me becomes allegory

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

Perfection is lots of little things done well.

Who wants to be a hundred? What's the point of it? A short life and a merry one is far better than a long one sustained by fear, caution, and perpetual medical surveillance.

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service.