God is that inner presence which makes us admire the beautiful and consoles us for not sharing the happiness of the wicked.

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.

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

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.

You may discover your purpose, but if you take it for granted, you will abuse yourself.

The more closely two organisms depend upon each other the harder it becomes to tell where one organism ends and the other begins.

When Christ at Cana's feast by pow'r divine, Inspir'd cold water, with the warmth of wine, See! cry'd they while, in red'ning tide, it gush'd, The bashful stream hath seen its God and blush'd.

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.

The leadership spirit possess a natural love for all human beings.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

You can make a lot of mistakes and still recover if you run an efficient operation. Or you can be brilliant and still go out of business if you're too inefficient.

People always do the right thing for the wrong reason.