Seeing depends on knowledge / And knowledge, of course, on your college / But when you are erudite and wise / What matters is to use your eyes.

Art does not copy nature - it suggests it.

All art is image making and all image making is the creation of substitutes.

The Painter must leave the beholder something to guess.

One cannot explain the existence of genius. It is better to enjoy it.

If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.

All artistic discoveries are discoveries not of likenesses but of equivalencies which enable us to see reality in terms of an image and an image in terms of reality.

Keep your heart and mind in perfect sync while bring the conscious and subconscious into unison.

Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What the country really needs is a good five-cent nickle.

When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another.

People roll their eyes at the idea of Kanye West running for president. I do not.

In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.

Ireland's just a place...people go there all the time.

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.