Art or talent, for an artist, is merely a means of applying his personal faculties to the ideas and the things of the period in which he lives.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Some of us don’t trust others unless there’s a reason to trust them.I prefer to trust others until they give me a reason not to.

If you watch what you think about, you won't have to watch what you talk about.

He thought of hanging himself, to pass the time.

I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence.

A man who never sees a bluebird only half lives.

I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.

Pop music can play a large part in the way numerous young people determine their right to desire and their need to question.

Liberalism isn't change. It has to be imposed.

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?

If they make the deadline because the Shiites and Kurds essentially rammed a draft through over Sunni Arab objections, there will be hell to pay.