You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

One can travel this world and see nothing. To achieve understanding it is necessary not to see many things, but to look hard at what you do see.

I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else.

Nothing is more abstract than reality.

Everything is a mystery, ourselves, and all things both simple and humble.

What interests me the most is expressing what's in nature, in the visible world, that is.

A half dozen pictures would just about be enough for the life of an artist, for my life.

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

To fall in love and to commit yourself to love means you should make your loved one the one thing you cherish the most.

I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe.

People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.

Magnus gazed upon Camille. "Some of my fondest memories include lashings of cream and beautiful women.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

I ran away from St. Louis, and then I ran away from the United States, because of that terror of discrimination.

My way of discovering of what I like was to create a restaurant list and eat my way through it, and I call it my 'inner fat girl bucket list.'

How and when to try new things and to what degree are critical... Too soon and too radical a change and you may not master anything or develop a style.

In the real world, you can make your own miracles.