There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.

Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.

Ever since there have been men, man has given himself over to too little joy. That alone, my brothers, is our original sin. I should believe only in a God who understood how to dance.

The artist begins with a vision - a creative operation requiring effort. Creativity takes courage.

I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.

Don't try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out.

I'm the goofball. I'm the person cracking people up.

O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

In the middle '50s, I had written that the point would come, inevitably, at which the relationship between the cause of conflict and political objectives would be lost.

I was a child of a single mother/art teacher, and a father who was an architect, so I've always been around the combination of art, fine art, and architecture my entire life.

He's trying not to laugh. I tell him I would have doomed mankind for him, and he's trying not to laugh.

But which is the stone that supports the bridge?

Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.

I see that the West is beginning to separate the question of nuclear armament from the peaceful use of nuclear energy.

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned.

The more rules you have about how people have to be, how life has to be for you to be happy, the less happy you’re going to be.