The contour should come last, only a very experienced eye can place it rightly.

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.

Thou art but a feeble flower in the garden of the universe, yet thou hath a purpose much greater than thyself.

Negative people feed off of your anger, let them starve.

My weight fluctuated when I was 30, and I did the unthinkable - I stepped out as a plus-sized model.

Tearless grief bleeds inwardly.

Chaplin was notoriously strict with his sons and rarely gave them spending money.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

Beautiful people are forgiven more often than the rest.

The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands and every (lawful) business transaction."

I won't support any budget, whether it's a Republican or a Democrat budget, that doesn't lead to balance.

Thank you God for making me an atheist.