It is easy to finish things. Nothing is simpler. Never does one lie so cleverly as then.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

My mind does not easily accept stately historical processions.

God is changing the guard indeed in the body of Christ worldwide. This I cannot be quiet about!

For me, I see filmmaking as art.

I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself!

A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

Philosophy is true mother of the arts [of science].

Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already.

You don't retire from the movies. The movies retire you.

I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.

Everything I do is a symbol. Everything, has a meaning.