I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Life—life—how cruel it is! Nothing but tears and sorrow and despair! Not a moment of happiness! Not a moment of joy.

I'm drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

Lenny Breau played more great stuff at one time than anybody on the planet... with feeling and tone. He was the best that ever lived, bar none.

Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.

I have made lots of mistakes in terms of contracts and spending money when I shouldn't have spent money.

If you combine good flavors, food turns into an orchestra.

Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel.

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

So often the truth is told with hate, and lies are told with love.