A painting is complete when it has the shadows of a god.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Choose only one master - Nature.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

When they have something to hide, they put it in the F.O.I. cabinet.

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands.""They're not empty now.

She was merely an actress who had been forced to perform her part on stage without fully knowing her lines. She was not real.

How is a sincere criminal, trying hard, going to get ahead in his profession if his victim fails to cooperate?

The beautiful thing about the truth of being is that it's so unimaginably immediate.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

I do not support citizenship for those already here illegally. Those who cut the line and broke our laws as their first act entering this country have foregone that opportunity.

Doing nothing in the face of a grave threat to the world is not an option.

Once they said they can only stop me with a pistol but today you need a machine gun to stop Messi.