To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.

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.

If you want to succeed in life you have to blaze your own paths

When you hear the haunting melody of guilt and shame, drown it out with God's song of forgiveness and love.

Don't judge what you don't know.

Life will always be full of great possibilities, as long as one approaches it with a mind that deeply believes in an endless journey of success and happiness.

He couldn't be more than forty-five, but Murray Miles was stooped, old before his time. The mountains of Alberta had the ability to bend those who lived here.That, or it broke them.

Regret is something you’ve got to just live with, you can’t drink it away. You can’t run away from it. You can’t trick yourself out of it. You’ve just got to own it.

[Early on,] the attitude was that what I was doing wasn't music.

I don't want to portray myself as a daredevil. I'm not at all.

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

It's funny that you [Zachary Quinto] did a monologue from Pounding Nails in the Floor With My Forehead. I did the same thing for my university when I went to USC.