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.

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

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.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Someone who eats pancakes and jam can't be so awfully dangerous. You can talk to him.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I don't care about a golfer. I don't care about getting better as a golfer. I want to be better as a person.

In general, every country has the language it deserves.

You should look up some of the reviews. The New York Times review is so over-the-top funny. It's hysterical. You should dig it out.

Prayer has never made you right, because right now our world of Islam is filled with abject hypocrisy in its religiosity.

My second grade teacher told me I would never graduate high school. That I was going to be a juvenile delinquent.

It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people... This is a people's task.

Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe.

People, even genetically damaged people, make choices. That’s what matters.’