Design is everything.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

Desires, memories, fears, passions form labyrinths in which we lose and find and then lose ourselves again.

I think my beard (in 'Drag Me To Hell') is getting a better IMDb rating than I am.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The holy man is beyond time, he does not depend on any view nor subscribe to any sect; all current theories he understands, but he remains unattached to any of them.

If I'm gonna tell a real story, I'm gonna start with my name.

I'm the most brutal and ruthless conquerer there has ever been.

Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.