The fascinating thing, is not to show the source of light, but the effect of light.

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.

My soul is in the sky.

You can never stop and as older people, we have to learn how to take leadership from the youth and I guess I would say that this is what I'm attempting to do right now.

The only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy

Film is about what you are thinking. It's about what's inside.

It's very easy to make successful photographs - it's very easy.

I love hiccups and I love sneezes and I love blinks and I love belches and I love gluttons. I love hair. I love bears. For me, the round. For me, the world.

Of course reading and thinking are important but, my God, food is important too.

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

In every romance you have to budget for the occasional dust-up.

Human unity is not something we are called on to create — only something we are called on to recognize.