A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

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.

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.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.

There are too many years around this table, too much time confined in one place.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

Children...will never go astray while they are in good company.

We don't live forever... Our legacy does.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

We may escape misfortune for a while, but the evil day will come.

Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.

That's a very nice, generic-sounding question: "When did you know you were funny?" But it pre-supposes that I think I'm really hilarious. So that's kind of a loaded question.