One must learn to be grateful for one's own findings.

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.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

His best talent had yet to be determined, unless you counted unrealized potential.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ keeps the ‘body’!

I don't care how pumped up or psyched you are to start a new diet or a new program - that emotion will fade.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence.

Wishing of all employments is the worst

We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.

I never really fit in growing up. I got made fun of a lot of the time in high school. People never liked me, and I was always the new kid.

All we really have here on this earth is those who love us.