The only ones who can really benefit by consulting the model are those who can produce their effect without a model.

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.

We laughed over our difference then spent years bonding over things that made us the same.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Our sole illumination was a dim and foul-smellingblubber lamp, which really only served to make thedarkness visible.

True stories are the best stories.

To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease.

The future of this nation, with the present generation, You must admit is nothing but a joke

I'm not really a Method actor. I'm always afraid of working with someone who's afraid to [break character] and won't talk to anyone because they're in character.

Luck never made a man wise.

I have no intention of ever working with the (Spice) girls again.

The only two things in life that make it worth livin' / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin' women