The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

To win our races, we will dare! The enemy may try every means to stop us, but look, "we won't care!

I never stopped loving you, I continued loving you in a different way.

Every epoch has its character determined by the way its population reacts to the material events which they encounter.

I never touch it. Not directly, anyway. I always use a glass.

We evolve at the rate of the tribe we are plugged into.

There is no Democratic or Republican way of cleaning the streets.

No one gives Cameron Diaz a hard time for not speaking Spanish.

Even if we don't see it, God is always working underneath the surface, behind the scenes and orchestrating His plans and purposes.

When it comes to flying, I am a nervous passenger but a confident drinker and Valium-swallower.

If she gets the jitters now, then she isn't the great champion that she is.