If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal.

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.

If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self.

If we allow everything access to our mind, we are simply asking to be kept in a state of mental turmoil or bondage. For nothing enters the mind without having an effect for good or evil.

'Project Runway' was my guilty pleasure while my son was napping or nursing.

The muscle and the mind must become one. One without the other is zero

You are valuable because you exist. Not because of what you do or what you have done - but simply because you are.

Friends are people who help you be more yourself, more the person you are intended to be.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

Acting is like a Halloween mask that you put on.

Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.