When you paint things exactly as they are, you don't show people anything that they couldn't see for themselves; you're telling them what they already know.

People aren't interested in blueprints; they want to sense the painter's involvement and pleasure in the subject. . . . Paint a sense of place.

If fact were enough, you could take a photo of the subject. Unlike the sensitive observer, however, the camera never selects or comments, never adds or subtracts.

You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

If you're not excited about the subject, the viewer won't be either.

The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

You don't have to live in anyone's shadow. Allow your unique characteristics to shine forth and Illuminate your way.

your are my life.. and my life is yours..

Self-contemplation is a curseThat makes an old confusion worse.

May you find new opportunities in every encounter.

If we succeed, it makes no sense to keep it only for ourselves.

Succeeding in business and failing at home is a cop-out. For no success in the workplace will ever make up for failure at home.

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.

Am I really a good mathematician?