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.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

The beautiful soul!

If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my own potential. I have to be better than the average person to succeed.

My son, there may be a time when I explain these things to you, because there may be a time when I understand them.

Amusement is the happiness of those who cannot think.

You can't dream up confidence. Confidence is born of demonstrated ability.

Life has had to deal with environmental change, especially climate change, since the beginning of its existence on Earth.

All I can say is that the only person that can stop you from achieving your goals is yourself. If you believe, then everyone else will too.

If people get to the end of the record, then that is a treat.

None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.