There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

Color is a matter of taste and of sensitivity.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else.

Black is not a color.

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.

The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

I need to work to feel well.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

It is not enough to know your craft you have to have feeling. Science is all very well but for us imagination is worth far more.

The principal person in a picture is light.

There's no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other. There's always a difference. We all have a more or less crooked nose and an irregular mouth.

But like the rest of the country, Maine has reached an impasse, for most of the mercury that fouls our skies, waters and land comes from outside our borders.

You have choices to make about what you do with the rest of your life.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Of all creatures in this visible world, light is the most glorious; of all light, the light of the sun without compare excels the rest.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

If we can just take a few companies, and use those as models, as examples, to show the rest of corporate America how they can become more competitive, that's what I'd like to do and that's what I hope to do.

I'm not politically motivated. I used to be - passionately. I used to be very Left wing. Then I went very Right wing, and now I rest somewhere in the middle.

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes; so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor, and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians.

When I was a kid, the idea of why I wanted acting to be the thing I do for the rest of my life was different. It was, Oh yeah, I'll get girls and be famous.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

We're brothers and we all look after each other. If one person falls down, the rest of the team is going to be there to pick him up. We just work hard together to get it done.

I always wanted to make sure my parents didn't have to work again for the rest of their lives.

The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

The surgery will always be a huge part of my life. I'm going to need to help people with weight problems for the rest of my life so that I can maintain my weight.

If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.

I'm not interested in becoming a bigger star, I'm not interested in being the wealthiest guy in the world. I'm doing fine, I love acting, and I want to do it for the rest of my life.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.

I think the suffering, violence and cruelty and Guantanamo and the rest is going to go on and on in Iraq.