The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.

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.

Love is an attraction. It draws one person to another even though they are a thousand miles apart.

When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day.

To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.

Jazz stands for freedom.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

I've learned a lot at home and been able to take what I've learned at home to the court.

We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.

When we help one another, everybody wins.

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened.