I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

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.

Hope costs nothing.

But even when the moon looks like it's waning...it's actually never changing shape. Don't ever forget that.

People may do crazy things for love, but they will also do amazing things for money.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.

Essentially, all life depends upon the soil

When I first decided to open a restaurant, I was turned down by several banks. It was the late 80's and many restaurants were failing. I refused to give up because I knew I had a good concept.

I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.

The waking have one common world, but the sleeping turn aside each into a world of his own

Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept.

You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials