Curiously enough, the Sublime is generally achieved through want of proportion.

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.

Whatever thought that activates a negative mood in your life, absolutely doesn't deserve a single moment in your mind.

I am positive like a proton.........and just as acidic like the Hydrogen ion......

Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance, brothers in ideals and conviction. It is now our duty to further strengthen this bond in order to secure this hard-won freedom for future generations.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

War has become a mode of sovereignty and rule, eroding the distinction between war and peace.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

Writing is seeing. It is paying attention.

Are we going to say sorry for our lack of customer service? Absolutely not.

United could soon overtake Arsenal as the chief threat to Chelsea, and defiant Keane vowed: We will keep fighting to the end. We are Manchester United, that is what we do.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.