The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you're an artist.
There is peace even in the storm
See, when I paint, it is an experience that, at its best, is transcending reality.
Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.
I feel real confidence in working on the stage.
Oh, I was working occasionally in and out of New York.
The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.
Don't let anyone charge you for what God has freely given.
To paint is a possessing rather than a picturing.
A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.
To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
It is nice to make a record and people like it, and it's encouraging.
If you're rude for television's sake, it ain't reality TV.
I was very cheap - that's the way I'd always worked.
The South is like a foreign country to me!
If you always been my enemy, it's still that way.
I wish I had more confidence.
Literature is the stringing together of pictures in words.
I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.
When I die there is nobody to take my place.
