One does not marry art. One ravishes it.

Painting is easy when you don't know how but very difficult when you do.

Drawing is not what you see but what you must make others see.

A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

Conversation in real life is full of half-finished sentences and overlapping talk. Why shouldn't painting be too?

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

The true traveler never arrives.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

He once said that he wished to be famous, but unknown.

I don’t show my body for a good cause... if one day in a concert I pull down my pants, I would leave without job to those reporters who say I’m a woman

I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

There is an Islamic population in France, most of which comes from the North African countries.

Statistics are designed to keep you safe.

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the 40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery and I think I'd suit that decade.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Hard times may test me, they cannot destroy me.