One never paints violently enough.

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.

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.

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

Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

The best way to learn is by doing. The only way to build a strong work ethic is getting your hands dirty.

Croatia is an amazing place.

We all suffer from dreams

When you have the goods, you don't need to dress up what you're writing.

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.

If you want to change your life in the fastest way possible, trade your expectations of others for appreciation.

We have to accept that some very toxic stuff was marbled into the Trump phenomenon.

As the pearl ripens in the obscurity of its shell, so ripens in the tomb all the fame that is truly precious.