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.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

If it looks real and feels real, do you think it matters if it's real?

She watched him for a long moment, an adorably annoyed frown wrinkling her forehead. "You're obnoxious when you're right.

It is only the promise of death that makes life worth living.

It is what you think, not what you achieve, that makes you happy.

All the art of analysis consists in saying a truth only when the other person is ready for it, has been prepared for it by an organic process of gradation and evolution.

There's always a sense of pride you take out on the field to play your best every night you go out there. Sometimes your best stinks.

Anywhere I can ski in the morning and sell a movie in the afternoon is good.

There's so many examples of just how lucky we are to be born anywhere in this world that is free.

I am the most ruthless, brutal champion ever. There is no one who can match me. I want your heart. I want to eat your children.

When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.