I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up.

If painting is no longer needed, it seems a pity that some of us are born into the world with such a passion for line and color.

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to that joy for an artist?

Women should be someone and not something.

Acceptance, under someone else's terms, is worse than rejection.

There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.

I am independent! I can live alone and I love to work.

The first sight of Degas' pictures was the turning point of my artistic life.

It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

There's only one thing in life for a woman; it's to be a mother... A woman artist must be... capable of making primary sacrifices.

It is as well not to have too great an admiration for your master's work. You will be in less danger of imitating him.

In reality the mere privations is not enoughto cause an insurrection: if it were the masses would always be in revolt

Vodka goes well with a wintery perspective. Nothing else provokes such presentiments of falling snow except, for some, the communist seizure of the state.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

Rooting for other people's failure does get in the way of your success.

Why would anyone want to be called a size zero or even aspire to being a zero? I don't even understand the thinking behind it, let alone the practicalities. What is all that about?

Every human being is searching for a deep sense of meaning, and yet we're all chasing success. We've confused one for the other.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

We don't have to change our thoughts. We have to get beneath them, to the very essence from which they emerge.

As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion.

No matter the job or position you have, you have the power to create positive or negative experiences for your customers. Where do you lean?