Experience has two things to teach: The first is that we must correct a great deal the second that we must not correct too much.

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.

A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking

I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.

Oaths are not the credit of men but men of oaths.

Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. Forgiving means abandoning your right to pay back the perpetrator in his own coin.

While you are alive, your worldly self is like a collector of benefits from Allah's bounties, which come to you from myriads of hands.

My great strength is knowing who I am and where I come from - my island.

Ay-firmative,' Eve said, and tried for a smile. 'Sorry. An Aliens reference always makes me feel better at times like this. Exept I'm not sure I'm the one who lives through the movie.

Some people think you are strong when you hold on. Others think it is when you let go.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.