The doors of Opportunity are marked 'Push' and 'Pull'.
Genius is the ability to renew one's emotions in daily experience.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.
I remember that even my first impression of Italian cinema was pictures by paparazzi because my mom was reading all of these trash magazines with paparazzo pictures.