The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see.

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.

I'm not a girl that will lay in diamonds but I will run through the flowers of the seeds we plant together.

Nothing threatens a corrupt system more than a free mind.

No man can have society upon his own terms.

Education is not complete unless we teach our children not only how to read and write but the difference between right and wrong.

My favorite party trick is to wear nothing but a gold thong in the house.

I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt.

There is only one superpower now and it doesn't know what to do with its status. As a result, we got Yugoslavia and Iraq, and the situation has only got worse.

I used to believe in one true soul mate, but not anymore. I believe you can have a few.

After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities.

A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame.