Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey.
Success is often nothing more than moving from one failure to another with undiminished enthusiasm.
Great success always comes at the risk of enormous failure.
One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.
Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
There is no doubt the charge was an awful gamble and that no normal precautions were possible. The issue as far as I was concerned had to be left to Fortune or to God - or to whatever may decide these things. I am content and shall not complain.