“I always thought I’d like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I’d like it to say ‘figment.’”

I never fall apart, because I never fall together.

The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.

I learned that you actually have more power when you shut up.

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.

Success is what sells.

I always notice flowers.

The best thing about a picture is that it never changes, even when the people in it do.

There should be a course in the first grade on love.

Perception precedes reality.

Fashion is more art than art is.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.

The biggest price you pay for love is that you have to have somebody around, you can’t be on your own, which is always so much better.

Land really is the best art.

I do the same thing everyday. I go to work and paint. I try to turn out as many pictures as I can.

When I think about what sort of person I would most like to have on a retainer, I think it would be a boss. A boss who could tell me what to do, because that makes everything easy when you’re working.

The mystery was gone but the amazement was just starting.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.

I advance all of my canvas at one time.

I am so tired of waking to the blank canvas of morning and realizing it won’t be painted with you.

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.

I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn’t very easy for anybody. He’s made it successful on top of that.