There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

The principal person in a picture is light.

Everybody is full of crap. The coin of the realm is being full of crap. The best people - being full of crap are our leaders and our superstars.

While power is important, efficiency is critical. Many have worked hard and gone slow.

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

Oh, my friends, be warned by me, That breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, Are all human frame requires.

People say it's really the press who create those soundbites about fashion. That's what sells magazines and clothes.

I never tell my age because I hope I'll always be the new kid on the block.

Don't you get it? We are The Walking Dead!

Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

The fact is that some people are better than others - smarter, harder working, more learned, more productive, harder to replace.