"An artist must eat sparingly and give up a normal way of life."

"It is impossible to repeat in one period what was done in another.The pointof view isnotthesame, anymorethan are the tools, the ideals, the needs, or the painters' techniques.""God, the king of artists, was clumsy."

"God, the king of artists, was clumsy."

"Our intention creates our reality."

"It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized."

"Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."

"Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it."

"Relationships based on obligation lack dignity."

"Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul."

"You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back."

"Only the insecure strive for security."

"Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it."

"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy."

"Be a good craftsman; it won't stop you from being a genius."

"I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them."

"To express himself well, the artist should be hidden... The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur."

"I have a predilection for painting that lends joyousness to a wall."

"My concern has always been to paint nudes as if they were some splendid fruit."

"Do not think that it is possible to repeat another period."

"It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre."

"I have no rules and no methods... no secrets."

"The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy."

"What is to be done about these literary people, who will never understand that painting is a craft and that the material side comes first? The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished."

"There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively."

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

"There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way."

"Conflict cannot survive without your participation."

"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

"A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe."

"It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the poser to choose either."

"The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets."

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

"When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way."

"The ideas come afterwards, when the picture is finished."

"A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved."

"I would never have taken up painting if women did not have breasts."

"The purpose of painting is to decorate the walls. Therefore it has to be as rich as possible"

"I have been for forty years discovering that the queen of all colors was black."

"What I like so much about Corot is that he can say everything with a bit of tree; and it was Corot himself that I found in the museum of Naples - in the simplicity of the work of Pompeii and the Egyptians. These priestesses in their silver-grey tunics are just like Corot's nymphs."

"A fat lot of good it would do if I told you that Titian's courtesans make you want to caress them. Some day you'll see the Titians for yourself, and if they have no effect on you, then you don't understand the first thing about painting. And I wouldn't be able to help you."

"The so-called 'discoveries' of the Impressionists could not have been unknown to the old masters; and if they made no use of them, it was because all great artists have renounced the use of effects. And in simplifying nature, they made it all the greater."

"I have arrived more definitely than any other painter during his lifetime; honours shower upon me from every side; artists pay me compliments on my work; there are many people to whom my position must seem enviable ... But I don't seem to have a single real friend!"

"The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about."

"Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made."

"Go for it now. The future is promised to no one."

"What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you."

"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

"When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself."

"If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave."

"The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit."