One can easily tell that the creator of the paintings in the Sistine Chapel was above all a sculptor

Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.

What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.

I don’t believe in an art that is not born out of man’s need to open his heart.

All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.

There is a battle that goes on between men and women. Many people call it love.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Oil-painting is a developed technique. Why go backwards?

I do not believe in the art which is not the compulsive result of man's urge to open his heart

If we were to behave half as well as we believe others ought to behave, we might prove ourselves as grand in character as excuses and justifications prevent us from being.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

You know, Lincoln was funny. I don't think F.D.R. was very funny. But Lincoln was funny. Lincoln was really funny. But I think you should get elected first, and then show that you're funny.

All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca.

The only queen I ever dressed was Eva Perón.

I guess when somebody offers you a movie, you don't say no. That's what I've learned

I play in front of 70,000 fans week in and week out, and I may drop the ball in practice, I may run the ball the wrong way, but once it's game time, it's game on.

For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.

When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of her experience.

Your destiny is that of a man, your vows those of a god.