Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

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.

Minds, however, are conquered not by arms, but by love and nobility.

Good order is the foundation of all things.

If I had a dream show, I probably shouldn't even mention it in this climate, but it would be like a kind of Fix It show.

Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.

My dad gave me a haircut... and it wasn't a very good one. When I went out of the house, my friends got on my case and said it looked like someone put a chili bowl over my head and cut around it.

Elvis is the king of rock and roll, who made white kids shake their shackle.

I thought very seriously having something more like a normal life where I might have my weekends and evenings off, and be able to read and have a more robust personal life.

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

From talk radio to insult radio wasn't really that much of a leap.

Artists are valuable to public discussion: They show the correlation between doing and thinking.