When a figure painter executes a landscape he treats it as if it were a face; Degas' landscapes are unparalleled because they are visionary landscapes.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Dream Song:As my eyes Search the prairie, I feel the summer in the spring. Whenever I pause The noise Of the village.

Our hearts were drunk with a beauty Our eyes could never see.

Whatever your beliefs are, you do not have to justify them to others.

To know the will of God is the greatest knowledge! To do the will of God is the greatest achievement.

Oh man, nobody is as tough as Mr T. Ice T is pretty tough though as well.

There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.

Under the system that we now have to nominate presidential candidates, for instance, I would prefer that we have a system that is closer to, say, the one we had in the 1960s.

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

Don't mess with our fans or we'll come and find you.

I think, by this point, almost everything on YouTube has some ad or another.