There are quite enough unpleasant things in life without the need to manufacture more.

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.

Suffering can thus be seen in large part as a kind of resistance or reactivity to the pain of the present moment. (p. 74)

And this also, " said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

He could sit in the dust and dark of the carriage house and rot for the rest of his life. Clearly that's what he wished to do. It was not my place to get in the way of so profound a destiny.

Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.

To think that fulfilling yourself in this world will create eternal fulfillment is absurd. But we feel this way because we lack purity.

The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.

One thing leads to the other. Deforestation leads to climate change, which leads to ecosystem losses, which negatively impacts our livelihoods - it's a vicious cycle.

This is more dangerous than double dating with Danny Bonaduce on the Kennedy compound.

Story is a yearning meeting an obstacle.

Percival was mouse-coloured and had not been very attractive even to his mother.