Painting is a strange business.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

You can never quit. Winners never quit, and quitters never win.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

It is only when we are no longer fearful that we begin to create.

The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.

If you stay away from parties, you're called a snob. If you go, you're an exhibitionist. If you don't talk, you're dumb. If you do talk, you're quarrelsome. Pardon me while I change my nail polish.

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I don't paint so that people will understand me, I paint to show what a particular scene looks like.

If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

Desire to know God.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

Love can only consist in failure...on the fallacious assumption that it is a relationship. But it is not. It is a production of truth.

As I've become older and more self-conscious, I'm more aware of films and the film industry. I'm sure you've seen that, but the publicity, the public side of this world is pretty scary to me.

The cook cares not a bit for toil, toil, if the fowl be plump and fat

Some people say I'm the best back in the NFL. That's what drives you: You want everyone saying there's no doubt who's the best.

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary.

I am not afraid of the word tension.

A comfortable, convenient life is not a real life - the more comfortable, the less alive. The most comfortable life is in the grave.