I had not yet acquired the experience which gives modesty.

There is nothing new under the sun, not even Manet.

The wretched beings depicted by Millet touch us profoundly because he loved them profoundly. They have nothing in common with vulgar ugliness. Beauty will always remain the highest aim of art.

I have always had a passion for the beautiful. If the man in me is often a pessimist, the artist, on the contrary, is pre-eminently an optimist.

The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

The true is not material reality only.

For someone so conflicted, who am I to give advice to anybody? It’s such a funny, grandiose idea

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Get some sleep, Secretary General, get some sleep. Revolution can wait till the morning.

I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.

[People] are alike in a sense that the Bernie Sanders anger at Hillary Clinton was that she was a so-called progressive and yet had managed to make $125 million.

Bill Dickey learned me all his experience.