What I have done cannot be taken from me.

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.

Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.

the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I wonder if the course of narcissism through the ages would have been any different had Narcissus first peered into a cesspool. He probably did.

How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.

The majority of women have no principles of their own; they are guided by the heart, and depend for their own conduct, upon that of the men they love.

The [Donald] Trump transition team is already functioning as the worst transition team we have ever seen. And the good news is the slower they do their work, the better off we are.

I was brought up with the 3 Ds: Determination, Discipline and Da Lord.

He who is good at excuses is generally good for nothing else.

I am totally unattached to material items.