Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty.

Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.

In painting you must give the idea of the true by means of the false.

Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.

One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.

You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.

The air we see in the paintings of the old masters is never the air we breathe.

It is peoples movement that consoles us. If the leaves of a tree did not move how sad would be the tree and so should we.

It is all very well to copy what one sees but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in ones memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists One understands absolutely nothing and its charming.

Art is not what you see but what you make others see.

Drawing is the artists most direct and spontaneous expression. A species of writing it reveals better than does painting his true personality.

Drawing is not the same as form it is a way of seeing form.

Drawing is not what one sees but what one can make others see.

The fascinating thing is not to show the source of light but the effect of light.

The frame is the reward of the artist.

The frame is the pimp of painting it enhances it but it must never shine at the paintings expense.

There is no such thing as Intelligence; one has intelligence of this or that. One must have intelligence only for what one is doing.

Realism is more important than the sentiment of the picture.

We participate and are responsible for a lot of the things that happen to us. If you hate your job, you are much more likely to get sick and die at a younger age than someone who's happy at work and has a nice family life and is mentally well adjusted.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

But purity is difficult to understand in the abstract like corruption, we understand purification best when it's concrete, physical.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

There are times when external circumstances can overwhelm us, and we do things we never thought. If you're not aware that this can happen, you can be seduced by evil. We need inoculations against our own potential for evil. We have to acknowledge it. Then we can change it.

As mechanistic biologists, we are hoping that by understanding how the virus works at the molecular level, we will be able to predict with more accuracy how it will evolve.

When people rely on surface appearances and false racial stereotypes, rather than in-depth knowledge of others at the level of the heart, mind and spirit, their ability to assess and understand people accurately is compromised.

My only foray into anything stock-market-related was in my eighth grade social studies class. I have steered clear ever since.

Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.

Look, I've always said from the word go many years ago that I felt the whole bonus culture, they need to think very carefully about being detached from the rest of the British public.

If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.

Like a horrible nightmare, the abrogation of equal rights weighs upon us all, but especially upon those Jews who, like me, had surrendered themselves to the dream of assimilation.

That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say.

In ages past, there was less of a dichotomy between good literature and fun reads. In the twentieth century, I think, it split apart, so that you had serious fiction and genre fiction.

I love John Updike immoderately. I am profoundly shocked that he has gone because he was, for me, the greatest American writer of the second half of the 20th century. He was also a gracious, charming, and witty man.

After the 'Golden Compass,' I wasn't sure if I'd ever get another acting job.

Make somebody happy today. Mind your own business.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that you have to agree with people and their beliefs to defend them from injustice.

I would love for models to be protected by a guild.

It's now taken for granted that women are in bands and you can say feminist things in your songs. But back in the early '90s, there was a lot of violence at Bikini Kill shows that people don't realize happened.

Analysis of soil, grave goods and skeletons has been key to our understanding of archaeology and the migration of peoples, as well as their daily lives. But in mainstream history, we tend to stick to documents.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

You have to make time and tend to things that are important in your life so you can live the life of blessing God has promised you!