Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and 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.

Happiness is my drug of choice.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

Any action, in the fullness of time, sinks to nothingness.

All we can tell you is that this race is too close for honest pollsters to predict.

I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.

You can go out and hate everybody, hate your age, and hate all the things you don't have but it will show; you have the face you deserve.

Don't Fall in Love with a Dreamer

You ultimately have to find out who you are inside and develop a set of values that are truly yourself, and then express them.

I don't really have a problem 'cause I know who these people are, I know that they're scared to death. I know these leftists with scared and they oppose and that they're inflexible.