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.

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.

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

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.

Before I was a genius I was a drudge.

Fear is just an idea in the mind that limits you. You cannot become enlightened if you are afraid, nor can you become happy.

You cannot design shoes if you only think about fashion; its too realistic. When I design, I dream.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

I do not think that technology is our salvation.

It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.

The day the world runs out of oil is much farther in the future than green activists care to admit. That is clear from data compiled by Dr. Robert Bradley, Jr. at the Institute for Energy Research.

Our runaway judiciary is badly in need of restraint by Congress.

It always offended me when I was in the studio and the engineer or the assumed producer for the session would start bossing the band around. That always seemed like a horrible insult to me.