I’ve concluded, after many years, that my mind works by process of elimination. Problem is, it hasn’t eliminated anything yet.

You start making progress in life when you realize that you don't always have to resume where you left off.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

The first goal of writing is to have one's words read successfully.

The artist's talent sits uneasy as an object of public acclaim, having been so long an object of private despair.

There was never a wise saying that couldn't be made wiser by adding the words, "and vice-versa.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.