I felt so insufficiently equipped, so unprepared, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct. I quarreled with all the world and with myself.

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.

Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer

Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.

A fan's love for an artist is so deep, I know I will go whatever depths it takes to learn about people that I'm in love with.

3HO is a family of healthy, happy, and holy people. Do you understand the word "family"? If, under all longitudes and latitudes, we keep our nucleus together, that is a family.

I believe we've... we've worked very hard with the Iraqis to build a better place ever since the fall of Saddam's government.

We fought for freedom together. We had no government, no weapons to help us. We defeated such a big empire without any government, without any arms.

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.

Better to lose a book to a child, than to lose a child to illiteracy.

We cannot diminish the value of one category of human life -- the unborn -- without diminishing the value of all human life . . . there is no cause more important.