So that's the telephone? They ring, and you run.

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.

Work passionately.

There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.

Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.

American audiences are affected by what the English people think.

The farmer and manufacturer can no more live without profit than the labourer without wages.

We must walk before we run.

As I get older, the things I'm sure of become fewer.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

[Calvinistic tradition] has fashioned and shaped my thinking since I was a teenager.

We see which way the stream of time doth run.