The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space.

It is generally admitted that the most beautiful qualities of a color are in its transparent state, applied over a white ground with the light shining through the color.

There are countless artists whose shoes I am not worthy to polish - whose prints would not pay the printer. The question of judgment is a puzzling one.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what!

I don't know what people find or like in me, I'm hopelessly commonplace!... Current appreciation of my work is a bit highbrow, I've always considered myself a popular artist.

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

Life is fragile, handle with prayer.

Reading what you want, and having one book lead to the next, is the way I found my discipline.

The Communists have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world, while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

I am so happy that I married a comedy writer. He's never not without a joke. No matter where we are.

Better not to start down a wrong path at all than head down it in the hope of making a detour when something better came along.

I'm famous. That's my job.

It's so important that we say 'I can see his point of view and I can see his point of view'.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down; she were not Fortune if she did not frown.

Every time the word 'breastfeeding' is mentioned, there's a snicker on the House floor. This has been happening since the dawn of creation. Can we finally get a grip on it?