Choose only one master - Nature.

Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know.

Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.

Without atmosphere a painting is nothing.

Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.

Old age is a hindrance to creativity but cannot crush my youthful spirit.

An honest man always values earning honor over wealth.

A painting is finished when the artist says it is finished.

I envy the poet. He is encouraged toward drunkenness and wallows with nubile wenches while the painter must endure wretchedness and pain for his art.

A work is finished when an artist realizes his intentions.

Sincerity is the eventual deception of all great men.

the past is a liarfull of promises it can't keepbut like a foolish first loveyou keep going back to it

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

Some people say the president is incapable of enforcing the law. Let them say that once more and I will set the tanks on them.

For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies

We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.

We have this weird thing in the world where you don't get insulted for what you do, you get insulted for who you are.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

Movies feel like work, and reading fiction feels like work, whereas reading nonfiction feels like pleasure.