The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love it is too exquisite.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment. I record.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Only the human figure exists; landscape is, and should be, no more than an accessory; the painter exclusively of landscape is nothing but a bore.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly, that you feel you could die of it!

A professional model is like a stuffed owl. These girls are alive.

Novelty is seldom the essential... make a subject better from its intrinsic nature.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

I do not know if you bridle your pen, but when my pencil moves, it is necesary to let it go, or - crash!... nothing more.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I don't belong to any school. I work in my corner. I admire Degas.

Love like a chicken salad or restaurant hash must be taken with blind faith or it loses its flavor.

Amongst the instrumentalities of love and peace, surely there can be no sweeter, softer, more effective voice than that of gentle, peace-breathing music.

I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.

the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away

I have never written a word that did not come from my heart. I never shall.

We seek opinions that are likely to support what we want to be true.

We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.