An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life.

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.

Can the sarcasm, ' he said. 'Please, I always use fresh sarcasm, never canned.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

We shall not enter into any of the abstruse definitions of war used by publicists. We shall keep to the element of the thing itself, to a duel. War is nothing but a duel on an extensive scale.

Everyone is now [Donald] Trump.

The happiest people in America socialize about seven hours a day.

Modesty in dress and language and deportment is a true mark of refinement and a hallmark of a virtuous Latter-day Saint woman.

I wanted to get an angel wings tatooed on my back, as a guardian thing.

Music appeals to me for what can be done with it.

Drama sells more than the truth.

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?