The true traveler never arrives.

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.

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.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

GOD is like a streetlight. He keeps observing you silently when it is light and showers you with light when you are in darkness!

If you are never the cause of someone's sadness, you will never have difficulties finding happiness.

No person is great in isolation. It takes many hands to shape a life. Denial would mean conceit, and conceit is not the same as self-respect.

Don't paint the apple; paint the red.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

I don't wish to not be a woman, but I'd certainly like to be a woman whose sense of purpose comes from within.

For the most part, as a society, we are not happy with ourselves.

In the middle of a dessert, no one talks about the virtues of the Sun!

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.