How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true?

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.

Truth is non-negotiable and its promise is love.

I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.

I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

When you start out in the wrestling business, you make a lot of mistakes, tripping over your own feet and looking like a fool.

The really great athletes make their news on the field, not off the field.

When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.

Poor little librarians of the world, those girls, secretly lovely, their looks marred forever by the cruelty of a pair of big dark eyeglasses!

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

Dreams have as much influences as actions.