The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.

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.

often enough, we owe our good fortune to someone else’s loss.

Even the pool of ink could be dried out and writing papers could be burnt to ashes forever but the spoken word will never die so as the editor.

I never wrote off [Donald] Trump.

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

The suit does not represent the businessman anymore. Nor does the loud shirt represent the rock star. The same man can now wear both.

Life deals from the bottom, sometimes, doesn't it?

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

A marriage of opposites - modern elements with antique pieces - highlights both their individuality and compatibility.

The printing press had a very liberatory effect that meant individuals - small groups could produce radical pamphlets - could use it for organizing.

Self-discipline is the No. 1 delineating factor between the rich, the middle class and the poor.