You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

I don't look where I'm going, I look where I've been.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.

Consider your goal like a war to win and use whatever strategies you know to win

A child prodigy is one with highly imaginative parents.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed.

Ultimately there can be no disagreement between history, science, philosophy, and theology. Where there is disagreement, there is either ignorance or error.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.