To be an artist you must learn the laws of nature.

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.

When nothing goes right, you have to face forward and take it on head first.

don't look in my eyes you will fall into a deep well and drown

All the great blessings of my life are present in my thoughts today.

The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him.

If I ever did have a baby, it probably would eat people.

Why must we be eternally on our knees before the Kants and Hugos?

I loved making The Imitation Game and it's really gratifying to hear the audience's response to the character that I play.

Own your dreams. There is no better way to make them happen.

The human intellect has not been able to conceive of anything more noble and sublime in the history of the world than the teachings of the Upanishads.

Few can remember clearly when innocence came to a sudden end, the moment at which we ask for the first time: Am I loved?