One must have a high opinion of a work of art - not the work one is creating at the moment, but of that which one desires to achieve one day. Without this it is not worthwhile working.

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.

If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

We were young, and we had no need for prophecies. Just living was itself an act of prophecy.

Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition.

I want to win some awards, sell more records - just do whatever I want.

You can change your health, you can change your relationships, you can change your income, you can change anything.

Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.

I'm not sure that I'll be able to do everything that I did before.

There are no inevitabilities in history

Let us agree not to step on each other’s feet.

I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.