Painting is not made to decorate apartments. It's an offensive and defensive weapon against the enemy. (about Guernica).

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

You have a certain charm, believe it or not. That, and you feed me.

Once you appreciate one of your blessings, one of your senses, your sense of hearing, then you begin to respect the sense of seeing and touching and tasting, you learn to respect all the senses.

But from the hoop's bewitching round, Her very shoe has power to wound.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

I secretly assumed, as poets do, The duty on me to define the moon.

I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore.

I feel pretty passionate about what's happening to America.

Every time you ask yourself where hip-hop's going, ask yourself where you're going; how are you doing?

Investing is fun and exciting, but dangerous if you don't do any work.

Americans must either choose big government and be willing to pay for and submit to it, or they must move toward smaller, less intrusive government and be willing to enjoy fewer government programs.