What is certain is that setting a piece of nature in place and drawing it are two very different things.

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.

you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

I really haven't seen The Report in a long time. I don't have a copy, but I'll have to see it again. I think it would be good to put both these men next to each other.

What you hope for, you also fear.

Never assume someone is smarter than you.

If only Jesus' followers shared his personality. That one shift alone would correct so many of the ridiculous and horrifying things that pass for popular Christianity.

The effect of one good-hearted person is incalculable.

I truly get very emotional when I am performing and see their (Fans) love for me.

Ballybunion is the course on which many golf architects should live and play on before they build golf courses.