I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.
What is real for me are the illusions I create with my paintings. Everything else is quicksand.
If painters left nothing of themselves after their deaths, so that we were obliged to rank them as we do actors according to the judgment of their contemporaries, how different their reputations would be from what posterity has made them!
What I have done cannot be taken from me.
Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.
Give me some mud, and I will paint you a woman's flesh.
Perhaps the sketch of a work is so pleasing because everyone can finish it as he chooses.
Manners are one of the greatest engines of influence ever given to man.
That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.
These guys [liberals] will never tire of spending our money and will never hold themselves accountable for their boondoggles. For them the failure of $5 trillion to eradicate poverty simply means that we haven't spent enough money. Ditto with education. The solution is always more money. No amount of empirical evidence will shake their socialist theology.
My father was a minister, so I was a P. K. , a preacher's kid.