Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

For if there is a sin against life it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life, as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.

The red-letter days now become to all intents and purposes dead-letter days.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.