Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

One never paints violently enough.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.

Remember, when you are dead, you do not know you are dead. It is only painful for others.The same applies when you are stupid.

Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

I'm not going to change it, because I think Mitt Romney has proven to be not a smart person.

She had in mind a different kind of looking person, because his appearance is not at all like mine.

Unfortunately, most products are full of plastic and silicones and parabens and things that are really not good for us but they give that silky finish.

Our fiscal ruin and resulting loss of world leadership will, in their [liberals'] eyes, be not a tragic event but a desirable one.

As I have got older and become a father, there's less and less time for films.

We cannot fail to win unless we fail to try.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.