It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

I don't look where I'm going, I look where I've been.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time.

I love you more than you love yourself! A fact you will never realize.

Rule #1 of Traveling-Don't even think of answering questions that contain the word "plan"?

Teaching is a never-ending story. The work is never over; the job is never done.

There are so many people I love in the United States, and I've had such great adventures in this country and have been so well received by people here.

I realized the secret to success is finishing! And not just finishing, but finishing strong!

Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

It's something I worry about when I'm working out. I don't want to get too fit. Because I don't want the new DaVinci of this Millennium to say, "You. I have found my muse. I have to sculpt you."

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

We're all capable of climbing so much higher than we usually permit ourselves to suppose.