What I wish to show when I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

I paint is the way I see things with my eyes and in my heart.

My eyes were made to erase all that is ugly.

Blue is the only color that maintains its own character in all its tones…it will always stay blue.

When I feel a little confused, the only thing to do is to turn back to the study of nature before launching once again into the subjects closest to heart.

The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented.

One must not imitate the sun, one must make oneself into a sun.

I don't follow any system. All the laws you can lay down are only so many props to be cast aside when the hour of creation arrives.

Nature, my dear sir, is only a hypothesis.

France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative up until the 19th Century.

American art, like America, must wait and live a while longer.

A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own. A gang is where a coward goes to hide.

The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.

Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens.

Being able to talk about your body openly is such an empowering thing.

Like any other actor, I draw on life experience.

A single vision is more perfect than a committee vision because with everyone having their say, it becomes compromised.

There are three things to remember when teaching: know your stuff; know whom you are stuffing; and then stuff them elegantly.

The case against a fully independent central bank is strong indeed.

Sometimes our power resides not in what we do, but in what we don't do.

To be as good as our fathers, we must be better. Imitation is not discipleship. When some one sent a cracked plate to China to have a set made, every piece in the new set had a crack in it.