If painting weren't so difficult, it wouldn't be fun.

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.

A novelist can’t be without a kimono and pen!(Shigure)

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

For he, who has never sailed through storms, can never trust sailors of such ships.

Don't worry. You'll find your message in your mess.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

I think stress is an addiction. It can be tied to work addiction or busyness addiction or success addiction.

Al Sharpton chases the spotlight the way Obama chases golf balls

All the really pretty girls get pregnant.

The trouble is, I'm a terrible PR person.