The painter's only solid ground is the palette and colors, but as soon as the colors achieve an illusion, they are no longer judged.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts.

My heart is my best asset, my heart is my biggest liability.

Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that's all you've got, you're dead in the water. It's not good.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

People will hate you for speaking the truth, but you've gotta learn to stand up to them, so don't be offended if I say something you don't like.

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

I don't like drug addicts and she sounds like a cat.

Whenever we confront an unbridled desire we are surely in the presence of a tragedy-in-the-making.

To sustain our leaders is a privilege.

I've always wanted to tell a story about Lincoln. I saw a paternal father figure; I saw someone who was completely, stubbornly committed to his ideals, to his vision.