With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

Song

Don’t give up on yourself, your family and your nation.

Bees will not work except in darkness

For some offenses, there is only retribution." Nora Hawks, "One Woman's Vengeance.

I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help.

I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?

It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.

I've always enjoyed Acting. Acting is acting