The more an object is polished or brilliant, the less you see its own color and the more it becomes a mirror reflecting the color of its surroundings.

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.

The rival ideologies of the left and right are both pining for the 50s. The only difference is that liberals want to work there, while conservatives want to go home there.

The number of malefactors authorizes not the crime.

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

They say...the stopwatch never lies. Speed kills but absolute speed kills absolutely.

The sovereignty of one's self over one's self is called Liberty.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. So the only thing to really be afraid of is if you don't go get your mammograms.

We never talk about gambling around my house.

I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.

If I were born again, I would still be an industrialist. I complain because it's very hard work with no weekends, but I would still do it.

If you remove tone from music, you have something, but what? I find it difficult to call it music.