One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it.

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.

Poetry is inspired by the elements of random thoughts, an overflow of gazing at the unseen.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to worry about schedules and that kind of thing.

Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself.

I know I look like a piece of sausage to those lions. A sausage with braids.

Word - that invisible dagger.

General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

I was self-conscious of what I would call my "tree-trunk legs" because they are very muscular... but now I've learned to love them.