Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.

It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

Paint the essential character of things.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

I sometimes have a horrible fear of turning up a canvas of mine. I'm always afraid of finding a monster in place of the precious jewels I thought I had put there!

Cover the canvas at the first go, then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression.

God takes care of imbeciles, little children and artists.

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

At fifty, that is in 1880, I formulated the idea of unity, without being able to render it. At sixty, I am beginning to see the possibility of rendering it.

I remember that, although I was full of fervour, I didn't have the slightest inkling, even at forty, of the deeper side to the movement we were pursuing by instinct. It was in the air!

Cover the canvas at the first go then work at it until you see nothing more to add.

It is only by drawing often drawing everything drawing incessantly that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.

My advice would be, as you consider fiscal policies, to keep in mind and look carefully at the impact those policies are likely to have on the economy's productive capacity, on productivity growth, and to the maximum extent possible, choose policies that would improve that long-run growth and productivity outlook.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'

Singing background has always been such a precious thing. I'm always going to be excited to sing behind an artist and learn from them.

There is one consolation in being sick and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

Why would anyone want to read what I have to say?

I want babies before I'm 25. I want to bring my babies on the road and bring them to concerts and raise them in the studio.

Everyone tells me to play as long as you can. Sometimes, it goes in one ear and out the other.

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way. This is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind; and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Its a new day. Yesterdays failure is redeemed at the sunrise.

Don’t let your heart be colonized by fear.

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

I enjoy fighting. It's one of my favorite things to do in the world, so I'm just enjoying every minute of it.

Every burned book or house enlightens the world every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side.

I am an old journalist, so I always do a lot of research and dive deep into people's character, who they are, and their motivation.

The beauty of music is that everyone hears it their own way, and every song you hear leaves an impression on you that alters the way you hear everything from that point on.

There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

If I owe you a pound I have a problem but if I owe you a million the problem is yours.

Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.

Britain has nurtured me and made me able to make movies that have travelled round the world.

It would be great to do another television show that was a multi-camera because the hours are so wonderful and you can be a good mom at the same time. The problem is, there aren't a lot of multi-camera shows that I personally like. My aesthetic is more geared toward single-camera shows.

The key to success is not through achievement, but through enthusiasm.

I have had a struggle with anxiety, always, and as a proud Jew, that's not a surprising thing.

Tell me what you are conceited about and Ill tell you what you lack.

To be perfectly honest with you, I was partying a lot in school. I didn't have any good study habits from high school because I just kind of got by on being a jock.