The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

I always start a painting with the sky.

If you're not going to use your free speech to criticize your own government, then what the hell is the point of having it?

It is more important to detect corruption than fiction.

A covenant is an agreement between God and man, an accord whose terms are set by God.

I was just so sick. I thought that orange juice was going to make me fat.

Knowing that pain and conflict is just change trying to happen, that there is something beautiful on the other side, that it is just a cycle is helpful. Humor is always essential.

She was twenty and had come to realize that, though she had a voice, she wasn't a singer; that to endure and embrace the life of a singer demands a whole lot more than a voice.

My opponent Senator Menendez and his colleagues are pursuing what I consider a Jon Corzine economic policy. Higher taxes, more spending, more debt.

Have gentle utterances that will inspire a superior longing for all time.

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.

Let us return back to the peace process for our children and for their children. The peace of the brave which I have signed is my debt, part in our love for [Isaac] Rabin.