What do these so-called artists mean when they preach the discovery of the'new'? Is there anything new? Everything has been done, everything has been discovered.

Drawing is the honesty of art.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

Draw lines - draw a lot of lines

The exhibition has now become no more than a bazaar where mediocrity spreads itself out with impudence. The exhibitions are useless and dangerous... they ought to be abolished.

It takes 25 years to learn to draw, one hour to learn to paint.

Is there anyone among the great men who has not imitated? Nothing is made with nothing.

You have to observe flowers in order to find the right tones for the folds of clothes.

The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.

Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.

I trust life and live deep bliss and comfort in each moment.

Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

We never really own a dog as much as she owns us.

So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

Endings are always the beginnings of something else

Persuasion, indeed, is a kind of force. It consists in showing a person the consequences of his actions. It is, in a word, force applied through the mind.

The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux.

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.

I'm not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.