For many years it was difficult for me to paint because I didn't feel the informal painting that was then tyrannically dominating painters and art collectors.

Prodigy only feeds on prodigy, fantasy on fantasy.

I couldn't get used to the community and social life of a theatrical set designer.

I call prodigy all that is invented, all that begins to exist from the second it is conceived, it is the process not the results, the principle and not the fruits.

All I know is that mine was a completely new theory about art, a new approach that made the pictures appear just like life does.

I haven't even ever wanted to distort. I isolate and represent.

I always use given and simple elements, I don't want to add or subtract anything.

An audience is perhaps unnecessary to the soul-searching mystic, but it is vital to the magician, the maker of prodigies.

My themes are derived from current events, from familiar situations, from daily life, because I never actively intervene against the object, I can feel the magic of its presence.

I never tried to stage, to fabricate an image.

I know how pathetically inadequate my medium [painting] is, but unfortunately I dispose of no other.

Women do not become exhausted they only exhaust others.

Happiness is a state of mind, not a set of circumstances.

The way to keep weeds from overwhelming you is to deal with them constantly and in their early stages.

In the career of female fame, there are few prizes to tie obtained which can vie with the obscure state of a beloved wife or a happy mother.

Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!

Movies in this country, its very complicated, and we could bang on about it forever, but the French movie industry is very different because its very obviously French.

I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.

But Annabeth knew that people saw what they wanted to see. They didn’t need the Mist to warp their perceptions.

We must all try to empathize before we criticize. Ask someone what's wrong before telling them they are wrong.