The first thing you see is the last thing you do.

It is in the contrast of light and dark that design happens.

See it in terms of paint. We don't learn subject matter, we learn paint. The musician can play any score that is set before him.

You're afraid because you're thinking about the end, not about what you're doing.

Gray is the queen of colors, because she makes everyone else look good.

It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.

A painting is a collection of a series of corrections.

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong.

I switched to painting with my left hand to be in better company.

I don't look where I'm going, I look where I've been.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself.

The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

Do you have any idea how rare a twenty-three-year-old virgin is where I come from?

Prosperity makes few friends.

My childhood lacked affection and ambience.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

All of us have at least one great voice deep inside.

We believe that the Federal Reserve has to carry on with a progressive increase in interest rates as a consequence of the American economy.

Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work.