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

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.

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.

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

It is tragic the way fearful people put all of their fears and insecurities into others

Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

I want to upset people, I want to make people think, I want to keep people interested.

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man - not a color.

There is a state that is able to understand the demand in the economy. That state should use prices as an instrument for implementation of this understanding.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

You can't look at the intrinsic value of gold as you can a business. Gold doesn't give you cash flow, and, at the end of the day, cash flow is what is important. Gold doesn't give you dividends.

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

What the morrow's years might bring 'twas sin for man to know.

World is full of smiles, whenever friends are with me.