Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

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.

From compromise to deceit is a small step.

Fear will hunt you down right to the very depth of your soul

There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.

In the space of seven years I have succeeded in accomplishing a great work and uniting the whole world in one Empire.

When you're depressed, everything becomes distorted.

It was quite a process to narrow more than 400 columns down to 80. I write weekly, though, and I don't always write about President [Barack] Obama, so that was the easy elimination.

People should be afraid of the cancer, not the mammogram.

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level.

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions.

Being in several, disparate bands is what I thrive on.