Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

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.

Great beauty is often perceived by human senses as pain.

Do not give a damn what "they" have to say (and you will know who they are) for you are either very right or very wrong, but at least you are very something.

The spirit awakens in weakness.

Winning has always meant much to me but winning ftiends has meant the most.

In a thousand years we shall all forget The things that trouble us now.

Conversely, the most powerful thing an actor can say is "no." If something is presented and it's a stereotypical role or something, you can say no to that, and that's very powerful.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Human beings are not things needing to be motivated and controlled; they are four dimensional - body, mind, heart, and spirit.

We love playing together and we love adversity. You know, back-to-back, the two best teams in the East.

You must learn to think one octave higher. Only then will you learn how implosion energy works.