[Photography is] in some ways false just because it is so exact.

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.

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Time is like a zombie. It moves slow, but all of a sudden 'BOO! Got your brains!

A little space of time before time expires a little way of breath.

Why do people spend their time being sad when they could be happy?

Here’s how a child listens: you tell him something, and he puts his own interpretation on what you said. That’s what he hears. No one has ever heard you.

I actually write as a passion, as something I actually am more passionate about than acting.

You are gorgeous, whether you're a size 4 or 14. It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, as long as you're a good person, as long as you respect others.

There are a great deal of a great many kinds of love.

I was never trying to be experimental or anti-anything; I was always trying to be real to things I was feeling.

Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.