A love of nature is a consolation against failure.

Real painters understand with a brush in their hand.

I wear myself out trying to render the orange trees so that they're not stiff but like those I saw by Botticelli in Florence. It's a dream that won't come true.

It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.

I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they.

My ambition is limited to the desire to capture something transient, and yet, this ambition is excessive.

I love only extreme novelty or the things of the past.

It is important to express oneself... provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.

Love what you are.

Making a decision takes a moment, living a decision takes a life-time.

It is not an individual act, architecture. You have to consider your client. Only out of that can you produce great architecture. You cannot work in the abstract.

Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

It is no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.

Sometimes I find myself sitting in one spot for hours, staring at nothing, thinking of nothing, feeling nothing, and most disturbingly, caring about nothing.

condoms are about as effective against AIDS as a twenty-four-chamber gun instead of a six-chamber gun when playing Russian roulette.

I am opposed to the redefinition of marriage.