The subject should be observed more for shape and color than for drawing... precise drawing is dry and hampers the impression of the whole, it destroys all sensations.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

All the sorrow, all the bitterness, all the sadness, I forget them and ignore them in the joy of working.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

The white hot publicity that came from 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' was appreciated but not sought, so I was happy to walk away from it and then write.

True love is humble, thereby is it known; Girded for service, seeking not its own; Vaunts not itself, but speaks in self-dispraise.

Well, I hate to tell youbut if you have a flu shot for more than five years in a row, there's ten times the likelihood that you'll get Alzheimer's disease.

I even thought of adopting a child as a single mother.

I never met Putin. This is not my best friend. But if the United States got along with Russia, wouldn't be so bad.

People increase their use of the term 'sir' when their angry. Little do they know, it only causes me to feel more like I'm wearing a top hat.

And about that," he continued. "Now that Kami and I have met, she likes me better than you. So you can leave.

One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called "weasel words."

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

Let the gulled fool the toil of war pursue, where bleed the many to enrich the few.