"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy."

"Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine."

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind."

"You don't talk about paintings, you look at them."

"People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance."

"The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect."

"I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it."

"About 1883 something like a break occurred in my work. I had reached the end of 'impressionism,' and I had come to realize that I did not know how to paint or draw."

"I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child."

"Everybody has their reasons."

"And if out of a million visitors there is even one to whom art means something, that is enough to justify museums."

"You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time."

"You haven't time to think about the composition. In working directly from nature, the painter ends up by simply aiming at an effect, and not composing the picture at all; and he soon becomes monotonous."

"If the painter works directly from nature, he ultimately looks for nothing but momentary effects; he does not try to compose, and soon he gets monotonous."

"An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature."

"I just keep painting till I feel like pinching. Then I know it's right."

"Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service."

"I had wrung impressionism dry and I finally came to the conclusion that I know neither how to paint nor how to draw."

"There are two indices of genuine art: it is inimitable and it is ineffable."

"Out-of-doors there is a greater variety of light than in the studio, where the light is always the same. But that is just the trouble; one is carried away by the light, and besides, one can't see what one is doing."

"I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn.Why not 'meat'whilethey're about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has a good circulation."

"People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old masters."

"I've never let one day go by without painting, or at least without drawing."

"When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous."

"I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside."

"There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

"Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you."

"We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive."

"Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say."

"You'll see it when you believe it."

"I think and that is all that I am."

"You can't choose up sides on a round world."

"You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox."

"Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy."

"Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are."

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."

"What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds."

"Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you."

"Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do."

"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

"How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours."

"He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]"

"On the whole, the modern palette is the same as the one used by the artists of Pompeii... I mean it has not been enriched. The ancients used earths, ochres, and ivory-black - you can do anything with that palette."

"In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known."

"Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard."

"Religion is everywhere. It is in the mind, in the heart, in the love you put into what you do."

"If the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled workers trained in the technique of their craft, nothing could be done with them if they had no ideal."

"The simplest subjects are the immortal ones."