We work not only to produce but to give value to time.

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.

Find the willpower to begin work.

The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too.

I have lived long enough to be battered by the realities of life and not too long to be downed by them.

Never be the only one, except, possibly, in your own home.

I've pretty much always had the same haircut my entire life.

I needed to be accepted, not humored. I intended to act.

I can't take it seriously when people get excited and scream that religion is in danger, and similar stupidities.

Life sends us messages all the time - then sits around laughing over how we're not gonna be able to figure them out.

In an athlete, it is not the legs that go first

We need faith, not because there are beings who will punish us or reward us, but because gods are a wonderful way of describing things that are happening to us.