Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

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.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

I heard them tearing at it. It was the sound of mortality.

Don't sit back and watch other people live out your dreams

even after every emotional accident, the show must go on.

Maxim 3: An ordnance technician at a dead run outranks everybody. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries

One of the successes of the cause of the friends of peace is the ratification of the Franco-Soviet Pact of Mutual Assistance.

I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great.

In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

So there's no such thing as work-life balance. There's work, and there's life, and there's no balance.