I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.

I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.