I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Dreams come true when you live life awake.

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

In her experience, groups of friends like that just didn't open up to include underage, undersized geeks like her. They hadn't sounded mean, they just sounded — self-confident. Something she wasn't.

Dealing with depression effectively is a mark not of weakness, but of strength.

A time-tested political tactic guaranteed to raise a president's popularity rating by at least 30 points. It is especially useful during election years and economic downturns.

[Matrimony] is the grave of love.

Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner. Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack.

Don't nobody like a man they can't figure.

At my sexiest, I look like an androgenous Muppet.

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say that he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.