My painting teacher in high school used to say, 'I can't paint like I want to, but through practice I'll get better. ' But I don't think that's true. I think sometimes you just can't paint.
The Labour Party is a moral crusade or it is nothing.
This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.
In politics a week is a very long time.
I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.
With the ministry's motto 'Research on a Shoestring' emblazoned on his coat of arms, he has to struggle with a treasury more interested in surtax relief than national survival. [Responding to an earlier statement by British Science Minister, Lord Hailsham, that British scientists were being recruited by the U. S. ]
If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar.
Real happiness comes from the things that can not be taken away from you.
I organize the opposition between colors, lines and curves. I set curves against straight lines, patches of color against plastic forms, pure colors against subtly nuanced shades of gray.
What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
For we must bear in mind that the greater number of garden pictures known to us are taken from tombs.