I feel as a horse must feel when the beautiful cup is given to the jockey.

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.

Now is the time to become a myth.

There's only so long you can live in a fantasy world before the reality comes along to sharply put you back in your place.

When you have higher thoughts, rid yourself of anything that threatens to lower them.

I cannot forgive my friends for dying: I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

It's not hard to tell we was poor - when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline.

One thing for sure - a sheep is not a creature of the air.

We Have the Ability to Achieve, If We Master the Necessary Goodwill, a Common Global Society

Stop and appreciate what you have today. Look at what you have with wider eyes, maybe with more compassion and more gratitude for the things that you do have and not the things you don’t have.

You want to go easy on the suicide stuff - first thing you know, you'll ruin your health.

You can't lose. Go, go, go!