There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

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.

The night is the balm for the wounded souls of the world.

Some people have a blissful heart

These shoes were made for dancing, not propping up a bar stool.""Those shoes were made for something, " Alex said. "And it sure as hell isn't dancing.

I'm not here to change the world, just your perception of it.

They say you can never go home again." Bartholomew Quasar leaned back in his deluxe-model captain's chair as the star cruiser raced toward Earth. "But I tend to disagree.

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves.

By dwelling on negativity, we prevent ourselves from living in the simple state of well-being.

I don't think of the ashram world as being any more spiritual than the corporate world.

Coolness and absence of heat and haste indicate fine qualities.

The greatest puzzle in the world, young man, the greatest challenge a man can face, a solving the riddle of a women's heart.