Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

The best gifts come from the heart, not the store.

We live in an energy-responsive world where intention radiates throughout. Fundamental to everything is attitude and perception

the more he learned, the more he realized that there is too much to learn in anyone’s lifetime.

To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

If Boris [Johnson] backtracks on serious things there'll be another bloody revolt.

God Himself begins to live in me not only as my Creator but as my other and true self.

Have no fear of the future. Let us go forward into its mysteries, tear away the veils which hide it from our eyes, and move onwards with confidence and courage.