Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius.

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.

Filling up your soul with the depths of your own thoughts, that's just extraordinarily progressive.

Confidence is good, but confidence with humility is far better.

What befalls me couldn’t have missed me, and what misses me could not have befallen me.

Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them.

Not knowing where your food comes from is a primary form of alienation.

With the White Sox, when we do stuff, everybody's opinion is asked for, is given and then decisions are made on just about everything.

One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

Out of the total of 11 movies, I got slammed.