The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

You are truly as important as everyone else. People's opinions of you will always be irrelevant as long as you keep holding positive beliefs about your life and abilities.

Never give yourself some excuses why you are too busy to exercise. Your health is the foundation of your life. Please do your best to keep it healthy at all times.

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them.

Love and wisdom are guides towards awakening.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

A man succeeds in completing a work only when his qualities transcend that work.

I had the great fortune to actually become friends with Sam [Fuller] and ultimately collaborate with him on White Dog, which we wrote together.

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

In real life there are no bad guys. Everybody just has their own perspective.

There's a basic rule which runs through all kinds of music, kind of an unwritten rule. I don't know what it is. But I've got it.