Not only can color, which is under fixed laws, be taught like music, but it is easier to learn than drawing, whose elaborate principles cannot be taught.

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.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

Even the tiniest poodle is lionhearted, ready to do anything to defend home, master, and mistress.

When the money goes bad, everything else goes bad.

Don't work out, work in.

Faith is a permanent and vital endowment of the human mind-a part of reason itself. The insane alone are without it.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

If thy wealth waste, they wit will give but small warmth.

I never felt interpretation was my job.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

When I present, I cheat. I only talk about things I care about.