A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

The dead has only one place to go… up. Wherever you bury them, they will go the same way, up

Are you there God? It's me, Margaret.

But until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, " that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise.

While Hillary Clinton meets only with donors and lobbyists, my plan was crafted with the input from Federal Immigration offices, very great people.

CO2 is so beneficial...it would be crazy to try to reduce it

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Racing through the field and hunting make the mind wild.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

I have never, honestly, thrown a chair in my life.