The secret is to follow the advice the masters give you in their works while doing something different from them.

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.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

No amount of blessings can benefit you if you don’t take the first step

That was the ballad of suburbia: give me loud to drown out the silence.

Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point of view.

In just six weeks from the time the design was started, we had the motor on the block testing its power.

There can be no progress, no achievement without sacrifice.

Be good, kind, and friendly to the receptionist. She's had a hard day.

It’s not important,” Silena insisted. “We have to find Charlie!” Another first: a child of Aphrodite uninterested in jewellery.

You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.