The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country - thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

I think if I could ever write with someone, I'd love to write a song with Loretta Lynn or Dolly Parton.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

A part of adolescence is feelimg that there's no one else around who's enough like youself to understand you.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

The EU is an unique project that replaced war with peace, hate with solidarity. Overwhelming emotion for awarding of Nobel prize to EU

Never say the number because it suggest that you are unable to pronounce the name of the wine you are ordering.

The first thing you have to do is make sure you're still wanted back. I never take that for granted any more.