There is love, and there is work; and we have only one heart.

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.

Use your intuition. Just trust yourself and keep true to that.

I've been extraordinarily successful for my age. I think for probably anyone's age, I'm very fortunate.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

Information wants to eat brie.

When you find a fear, that fear will either create you or destroy you.

A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.

Love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

I’m not going to say a damn word about it being tough; I’m having the best time of my life!

You always want your films to go as far as they can.

We can't want an education for kids more than they want it for themselves.