People call me the painter of dancing girls. It has never occurred to them that my chief interest in dancers lies in rendering movement and painting pretty clothes.

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.

Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

What's it like? Being married?Cold feet. Middle of the night you're sleeping, suddenly, wham, you've got ice cold feet warming themselves on the back of your legs.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

There is no capital more useful than intellect and wisdom, and there is no indigence more injurious than ignorance and unawareness.

The outlet for my sorrow, that I do feel deeply, and the pain, is the songs. That's where it goes.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

You never know what's going to happen with television these days.

The power of duly appreciating little things belongs to a great mind.

I'm a great admirer, fan and consumer of television. I love serial drama. I have been a major fan of HBO's series for many years.