In abandoning the vagueness of the sketch the artist shows more of his personality by revealing the range but also the limitations of his talent.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

One never paints violently enough.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Philosophy is an infertile hybrid. Life is a prolific hermaphrodite.

He kisses like he's dying of thirst, and I'm water.

We are insulting God by constantly depending and looking forward for miracles.

A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

I've been able to learn a lot through diet and exercise, but I've got to tell you, it's having true love in your life and somebody who has your back 24 hours a day that makes the difference.

Conscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.

We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

When rogues fall out, honest men get into their own.

Marriage partners, not government, should define the terms and spiritual orientation of their union in accordance with our nation's guarantee of religious freedom.

Thus the theory of description matters most. It is the theory of the word for those For whom the word is the making of the world, The buzzing world and lisping firmament.