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.

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.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

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

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.

When life breaks you down, you have two choices. You can either leave the pieces on the floor... or you can rebuild yourself so that you’re stronger than before.

Mistakes are often the best teachers.

The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her.

I want people to have less me.

High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.

I would love to go back as Leela in this new series.

If you imagine whipping your skin every day, that's what it does and it's a full prosthetic piece.

Iran's arms exports to the murderous Assad regime in Syria are of particular concern. As the Panel of Experts has concluded, Syria is now the central party to illicit Iranian arms transfers.

If we must fall, we should boldly meet our fate.

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