To mention only contemporaries, Delacroix, Corot, Millet, Rousseau, Courbet are masters. And finally [I like] all those [painters] who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

Every picture shows a spot with which the artist has fallen in love.

I like all those painters who loved and had a strong feeling for nature.

The animation of the canvas is one of the hardest problems of painting.

Though the artist must remain master of his craft, the surface, at times raised to the highest pitch of loveliness, should transmit to the beholder the sensation which possessed the artist.

I always start a painting with the sky.

Die before you die and find that there is no death.

The world needs great inspires, who will encourage every living soul to reach their highest potential. You can be one.

He once had lips as cold as stone and a heart that equally matched, but I had managed to warm him up and now all I could sense was his need for me.

I don't have to work extra hard, but that's because there are a lot of women in my professional network and I have hired a lot of women as full-time writers and part-time columnists.

Coming closer to home, there is so much of jealousy, pride, arrogance, and carping criticism; fathers who rise in anger over small, inconsequential things and make wives weep and children fear.

I need to be able to engage people; that’s where I flourish.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them.

There is no doubt that I would have won more honours had I signed for Manchester United as a youngster.

I'm sure clubs have a lot of power these days.