Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.

I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law.

Herb Brooks, God rest his soul, wasn't coaching a Dream Team. He was coaching a team full of dreamers.

The beauty of art is that there are no rules

A theory's assumptions always are and ought to be unrealistic. Further, we should attempt to make them more unrealistic in order to increase a theory's fruitfulness.

I think some of the most interesting stuff was seeing how the Dark Web works and seeing how easy it is for hackers to break into your computer or your bank account or your private information.

Old I may be, but, given the chance, I will learn.

True thinkers are characterized by a blending of clearness and mystery.

For those of you who tried, but didn't make it, Settle down it's never what you think. The summit doesn't differ from the deep, dark valley, And the valley doesn't differ from the kitchen sink.