One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Each man has his own way of being himself and of saying it so ultimately that he can't be denied.

We have two American flags always: one for the rich and one for the poor. When the rich fly it means that things are under control; when the poor fly it means danger, revolution, anarchy.

Everyman, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths.

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

The world itself is pregnant with failure, is the perfect manifestation of imperfection, of the consciousness of failure.

The life of a creator is not the only life nor perhaps the most interesting which a man leads. There is a time for play and a time for work, a time for creation and a time for lying fallow. And there is a time, glorious too in its own way, when one scarcely exists, when one is a complete void. I mean-when boredom seems the very stuff of life.