The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

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.

No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!

A beautiful heart finds beauty in everything.

Mountains are moved when we choose positivity, when we choose to exert the power of love, when we chip away at our problems 1 day at a time.

I have a respect for manners as such, they are a way of dealing with people you don't agree with or like.

Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew that's single and trying to rebuild that connection.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

Goodness, Time's rude hand defies, And winter lives when beauty dies.

The more positive you are, the powerful youll be.

I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.