The attacks of which I have been the object have broken the spring of life in me... People don't realize what it feels like to be constantly insulted.

There are no lines in nature, only areas of colour, one against another.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

Every new painting is like throwing myself into the water without knowing how to swim.

You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

I paint what I see and not what others like to see.

There is no symmetry in nature. One eye is never exactly the same as the other.

There is only one true thing: Instantly paint what you see.

Who is this Monet whose name sounds just like mine and who is taking advantage of my notoriety?

Conciseness in art is essential and a refinement. The concise man makes one think; the verbose bores. Always work towards conciseness.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

The law's a necessary evil--we canna be doing without it--but do ye not think it a poor substitute for conscience?

Who the hell cares about what anybody else thinks? Just look into your heart and do whatever the hell makes you happy.

Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

When the Guest is being searched for, it is the intensity of the longing for the Guest that does all the work. Look at me, and you will see a slave of that intensity.

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

It wasn't so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

Problems look mighty small from 150 miles up.

To the audience it doesn't really matter how much the director struggled with an actor. It's the result that counts.