Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

A painting that is well composed is half finished.

I'd spent a night with Ranger a while ago, and I knew what happened when he was encouraged. Ranger knew how to make a woman want him. Ranger was magic.

Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

I love my apartment in New York.

I got into comedy so I could stay out all night.

Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the 'common man.'

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

It is curious to be treated by the old-fashioned people as a criminal because my thoughts and ways are beyond them.

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.

When you want to get good at something, how you spend your time practicing is far more important than the amount of time you spend.

A bad marriage is worse than no marriage at all.