I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

The quality of your communication shapes the quality of your life. Every cell in your being aligns with what you declare.

A fool shouts charge when he should retreat, A coward shouts retreat when he should charge and a wise man knows the difference. I charge.

The more lies you tell the more stories you have to remember.

If I stay close to the sea, I will go on well.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

You really try to work the character out and spend time in the headspace of the character. That's what I did.

A long term goal is to encourage students to start doing concerts in which I or the other artists will come back at the end of the school year to see their concerts.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

I really believe I know why my designs were better than any other human being, but I don't want to take credit for starting Apple, for turning the world around or anything like that.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability