Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

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.

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.

I like a painting which makes me want to stroll in it.

The success of a man should be measured not by his income but by his tax returns.

The one thing that we need to escape is our minds, but our minds are the one thing that we cannot escape from.

Mistakes are lessons by another name.

Chestnuts in stuffing tastes like someone chewed up a tree branch and then French-kissed it into your mouth.

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

She was a good Christian woman with a large respect for religion, though she did not, of course, believe any of it was true.

McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery.

Do your part to silence gossip - don't repeat it.

Our world is at the crossroads. We have a choice, right and wrong.

It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.