The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

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.

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.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Never underestimate a determined woman!

I am neither I nor the other oneI am something in between

Peace is a national issue, not only government's responsibility.

I don't want to jump off the roof or jump for joy depending on my movie reviews, or whether it makes money. I think the larger, more meaningful things are family and the people you love.

I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true.

Only dumb people are happy.

Twitter! It's like being stalked by committee!

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

That's really what wealth does for you. It gives you freedom to make choices.