My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Doing nothing is even worse than doing the wrong thing.

Follow your dreams, because your dreams won't follow you.

If you can be funny, it means you're intelligent. Your brain is working fast.

My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.

So you say you love the poor? Name them.

The paintings usually start as abstracts and then I look at them and look at them, and like a Rorschach test, I try and see what it is.

Don't be shocked when your history book mentions me.

The world is split between those who do not sleep because they are hungry and those who do not sleep because they are afraid of those who are hungry.

Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.