The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

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.

You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.

If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.

She's better than Netflix.

We in America count on the profit motive to get people to do the right thing. That's our basic American notion when it comes to business.

If you're old enough to have a job and to have a life, you use Facebook exactly as advertised, you look up old friends.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

Wikipedia will be small, disreputable, and unimportant compared to CZ in a few more years. Uh, ;-)

We have a real culture of thrift. The goal that I had in bringing a lot of the packaged goods folks into Activision about 10 years ago was to take all the fun out of making video games.

In our family we don't divorce our men - we bury them.

Liberty is to be subserved, whatever occurs.