People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

To my mind, a picture should be something pleasant, cheerful, and pretty, yes pretty! There are too many unpleasant things in life as it is without creating still more of them.

Art is about emotion; if art needs to be explained it is no longer art.

One morning, one of us ran out of the black, it was the birth of Impressionism.

When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished.

Work lovingly done is the secret of all order and all happiness.

Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.

Regularity, order, desire for perfection destroy art. Irregularity is the basis of all art.

I only had the right to sit in the shadows of the world, in complete silence. Whether I was laughed at, or told I was discusting, or thought of as unpleasant I would sit in the shadows.

Water is happy when it falls

I believe the equal rights amendment is a necessity of life for all citizens. The cabinet sometimes felt that I shouldn't be so outspoken.

You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

Weber's writing is as strong as any in the Contemporary Folk community. ' Goodbye to Dad' is one of the best original tunes that I have heard in a long time.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

Whether we're prepared or not, life has a habit of thrusting situations upon us.

The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is; he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.

The world is begging for you to lead.