How often have I found that wanting to use blue, I didn't have it so I used a red instead of the blue.

Often while reading a book one feels that the author wouold heave preferred to paint rather than to wirte; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

When you're really young, you're young for life.

I understand my own pictures best six months after I have done them.

[In developing your potential] ... I don't develop; I am