Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.

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.

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.

Tears of joy are better than smiles of sorrow.

It matters very little whether a man is discontented in the name of pessimism or progress if his discontent does in fact paralyse his power of appreciating what he has got.

Look, Americans will go for leadership that makes sense. Our job, you know, as public officials, is not to put our finger in the air. Our job is to listen, and then lead.

Every person's remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.

Care and labor are as much correlated to human existence as shadow is to light.

The passion of rescue reveals the highest dynamic of the human soul.

I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

Hope is the consolation of the world.

I very much dislike writing about myself or my work, and when pressed for autobiographical material can only give a bare chronological outline which contains no pertinent facts.