Daylight is too easy. What I want is difficult - the atmosphere of lamps and moonlight.

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.

Your anger against every form of insult and oppression must be out of love.

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking.

I get given loads of rubbish. So, I have two Alanis Morissette records which I hide when anyone with taste calls around.

I know there is no danger that I will ever forget that people construct their own reality, that human beings are not led to the same version of events and of the world by the same physical evidence.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

The United States Postal Service is the world's most efficient postal system.

There is no sociology worthy of the name which does not possess a historical character.

The biggest change in the world today is that the young don’t learn from the old, they teach the old about the world today.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.

Imagination brings bliss at no cost