France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

Procrastination should not be linked with failure, just as early action should not be tied to success.

The studios don't finance anymore, they get outside funds.

People see me as Andre first. Then they see me as someone who happens to be a Muslim.

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

The winner leaves undefeated and a lot of people will say they are the top guy at welterweight. I would definitely like a crack at that title, being the top guy at welterweight.

Why couldn't you let me have it? Why did you have to take it? Why did you always take everything?

Feels like I'm in a play and I don't know all my lines.

We enjoy the fruit of the first coming but anticipate the glory of the second.

I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them, and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.

Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young.