Philosophers and aestheticians may offer elegant and profound definitions of art and beauty, but for the painter they are all summed up in the phrase: To create a harmony.

One of the main causes of our artistic decline lies beyond doubt in the separation of art and science.

Art is nothing but humanized science.

In our young days, when Modigliani and I first came to Paris, in 1906, nobody was very clear about ideas. But unconsciously, we knew quite a lot of things, of which we became aware later on.

Telling people they don't have a sin nature doesn't promote sin anymore than telling a slave they are free promotes slavery.

Awareness is the enemy of sanity, for once you hear the screaming, it never stops.

Love is not blind.Love sees everything and says yes to it all.

Everybody is living for a purpose, you might turn out to be significant or insignificant depending on the kind of message you are feeding the world with.

There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

An appellate court which reverses the judgment of a popular author's contemporaries, the appellant being his obscure competitor.

It's not the tragedies that kill us; it's the messes.

I've always been attracted to the characters that I didn't know anything about. If you do anything in life with passion and love, then it's worth trying.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.