Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.

Fine art is knowledge made visible.

I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.

Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.

The principle of realism means denial of the ideal.

Beauty lies in nature and reveals, once the artist has perceived it, its own expressive power.

To be able to translate the customs, ideas and appearance of my times as I see them - in a word, to create a living art - this has been my aim.

When I am no longer controversial, I will no longer be important

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.

The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.

It is fatal for art if it is forced into official respectability and condemned to sterile mediocrity.

Look at the stars. See their beauty. And in that beauty, see yourself.

The purpose of training is to tighten up the slack, toughen the body, and polish the spirit.

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.

Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.

Several girlfriends are easier to handle than one wife.

I’m the type of person that tries to fall back asleep in the morning just to finish a dream.

Everything in your life might be good, but there's still this notion that everything is not going to be okay, that there's more pain and suffering to come down the road.

The relation of faith between subject and object is unique in every case. Hundreds may believe, but each has to believe by himself.