Go and see what others have produced, but never copy anything except nature. You would be trying to enter into a temperament that is not yours and nothing that you would do would have any character.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

what you do today is the foundation upon which your future will stand

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.

The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.

She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley.

Keep in mind that life produces no maestros, only students of varying shades of ineptitude.

A painter can hang his pictures, but a writer can only hang himself.

You can't die. Bodies come and go but your spirit is eternal. You're the stuff that life is.

Man ... has an inborn religious sentiment that whispers of a God to his inmost soul, as a shell taken from the deep yet echoes forever the ocean's roar.

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.

Sometimes I forget about taking care of myself.