And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Did you just seriously quote Grease? I think I'm gonna have to revoke your man card.

When your kids get excited, let them have that feeling and share the excitement with them. Sharing makes it bigger.

When you have the right intention, the right opportunity will open the door.

Agape is the concrete commitment to the flourishing of someone or something outside of oneself. Even and perhaps especially when that flourishing, hence the joy, is threatened.

It is critical that special counsels have the independence and resources they need to lead investigations.

[Bob] Dylan, like Johnny Cash and only a handful of others, simultaneously embodies the American dream and the harsh wake-up call that comes after it.

Remembrance is a form of meeting.

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?

Change in the societies at the very bottom must come predominantly from within; we cannot impose it on them.

What I have learned from life is to make the most of what you have got.