Matisse renovates rather than innovates.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew.

When man resolved to imitate walking, he invented the wheel, which does not look like a leg. In doing this, he was practicing surrealism without knowing it.

Cubism is the art of depicting new wholes with formal elements borrowed not only from the reality of vision, but from that of conception.

Without poets, without artists, men would soon weary of nature's monotony.

Joy came always after pain.

Memories are hunting horns whose sound dies on the wind.

I don't want to work. I want to smoke.

Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman.

I love men, not for what unites them, but for what divides them, and I want to know most of all what gnaws at their hearts.

Talent is never enough. Effort, not talent, is the key to success.

Every struggle you overcome, will build the strength of your spirit.

You said a curse is only a curse if I allowed myself to me cursed by it. You said... I had it in my power to free myself of any curse - that curses were preludes to blessings...

My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

He who is too well off is always longing for something new.

The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

Our identities are as fluid as our personal experiences are diverse.

Children are wonderful, and they add to my whole life.