The first virtue of a painting is to be a feast for the eyes.

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.

In my world death will come chasing. In your world it will start whispering in your ear to destroy yourself. I know this because it started whispering to me when I was in the detention center.

Whenever you have good dreams never let it go, because dreams are tiny seeds which germinate result into fruitful tomorrow .

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so

He told me just to keep the ball low.

It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Be killing sin or it will be killing you.

All da ladies love Leo!!

I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.