the moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art... these dismal moods have very little compensation.

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.

A general never shows despair. He instills confidence in his troops. He leads them forward, even into the mouth of death.

Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind

Where flowers bloom so does hope.

Money is a kind of poetry.

There's a lot of pressure to look like the last company that was successful.

Love is worthless unless it acts out, unless it's expressed in deed and behavior.

The universe is computing its own destiny.

Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law.

I feel the longer he stays at United the better it is for the club. He's done so much for United you can't imagine him not being here. (on Sir Alex Ferguson)

On kissing Marilyn Monroe: It's like kissing Hitler.