I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow.

The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first.

The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.

Fantasy abandoned by reason produces impossible monsters

The dream of reason produces monsters

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

London is satisfied, Paris is resigned, but New York is always hopeful. Always it believes that something good is about to come off, and it must hurry to meet it.

Be yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.Style is King, 2008.

Put off thy cares with thy clothes so shall thy rest strengthen thy labor and so thy labor sweeten thy rest.

Those who write clearly have readers.

If it required some effort to go from today to tomorrow, some people would always remain in yesterday.

Truth is, of course, relative. But then, so is relative.

We are nothing but ceremony; ceremony carries us away, and we leave the substance of things; we hang on to the branches and abandon the trunk and body.

The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.

To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart.

In reality, it's much easier not to smoke or eat chocolate than to do so. It's your mind that convinces you otherwise.