When a thing bores you, do not do it.

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.

Whether a religion is of peace or violence should be defined by the actions of its people, not by some books.

The important thing is not to survive, but to live.

But man has still another powerful resource: natural science with its strictly objective methods.

Only peril can bring the French together. One can't impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.

The purpose of enlightenment is certainly not the teacher, nor is it you. It doesn't have a purpose. Enlightenment simply exists.

I'm definitely still wild at heart.

Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks

The Preacher, the Politicain, the Teacher, Were each of them once a kiddie. A child, indeed, is a wonderful creature. Do I want one? God Forbiddie!

I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

I spend more time with Gucci [Mane] or Birdman than 300, but all this is just family. Who cares [about] contracts?