Why should beauty be suspect?

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.

Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.

Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

I've been thinking a lot about Lady Gaga and what she means for feminism. I think - I find her completely fascinating, and I really like what she has to say.

To draw true beauty shows a master's hand.

Men will not always die quietly.

It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

The tours are campaigns.