You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.

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.

The only sin in this world is to lose faith in yourself.

To make yourself something less than you can be - that too is a form of suicide.

I think people have common sense and can tell what's real, what's right or what's wrong and work it out.

It is not whether you win or lose, but who gets the blame.

Technology has an incredible role to play in enabling of policy issues.

I disagree with the idea that modern dancers are cold or unemotional.

Children raised with respect and inner direction tend to play well in groups, at times quite peacefully, each involved in her own project or involved with the other chidren.

I do like to keep my private life to myself. But then again, I don't really get up to much.

A lot of times songs are very much of a moment, that you just encapsulate. They come to you, you write them, you feel good that day, or bad that day.

If you are sending someone some Styrofoam, what do you pack it in?