Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Now at this very moment I knew that the United States was in the war, up to the neck and in to the death. So we had won after all! ... How long the war would last or in what fashion it would end no man could tell, nor did I at this moment care ... We should not be wiped out. Our history would not come to an end ... Hitler's fate was sealed. Mussolini's fate was sealed. As for the Japanese, they would be ground to a powder. All the rest was merely the proper application of overwhelming force.

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation.