The pain passes, but the beauty remains.

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.

Bellamy had come down from scanning the heavens only to find himself in the depths of hell.

The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.

Usability rules the web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it.

She had a lively, playful disposition that delighted in anything ridiculous.

Stand your ground means stand your ground. It doesn't mean chase after somebody who's turned their back.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

America never was America to me And yet I swear this oath - America will be!

In God we trust, the game is all us. Til the sky calls or its flames on us.

A disease is farther on the road to being cured when it breaks forth from concealment and manifests its power.