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.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

If Iran wants to be treated like a normal country, let it act like a normal country.

You slam the bottom and either walk away or suck it up and get through it.

It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair.

The greatest sin a coach can commit is to allow kids to slide by. This goes for the classroom as well as the court

I should never deem a man of ordinary caliber worthy of my devotion.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen.

James Dean's death had a profound effect on me. The instant I heard about it, I vomited. I don't know why.

I'm not guaranteeing that if you work hard you'll be able to duplicate my success. But in America, if you work hard, you just might. I'm a perfect example of that.