In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.

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.

I have shed many tears.I have been broken in my spirit.But through it all, God's grace have lifted my soul.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

It is not enough to acquire knowledge. Common-sense is paramount. Sadly, it is not in every knowledgeable person’s shed.

I just feel that the only power I have is setting a good example.

To achieve victory we must mass our forces at the hub of all power & movement. The enemy's 'Center of Gravity'

Its a matter of style. The Evan Hunter style and the Ed McBain style are very, very different.

Work until your idols become your rivals

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

You've got to play what people think you are, rather than what you are. You have to have a sense of what you are as you're playing what people think you are.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.