No amount of smiling at a flight of stairs has ever made it turn into a ramp.
If you're sufficiently tenacious and interested, you can accomplish what you want to accomplish in this world.
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.
You should keep on painting no matter how difficult it is, because this is all part of experience, and the more experience you have, the better it is. . . unless it kills you, and then you know you have gone too far.
All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.
Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.
Research now means a Google search.
Nowadays, politically, everybody is promising everything. That's the only way you can get elected.
What expressions we used - in part taken over and in part newly invented! above all, the famous 'wholly other' breaking in upon us 'perpendicularly from above,' the not less famous 'infinite qualitative distinction' between God and man, the vacuum, the mathematical point, and the tangent in which alone they must meet.
You've got to kick fear to the side, because the payoff is huge.