God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye. . . it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
All art, literature, and music must be born in your heart's blood. Art is your heart's blood.
My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are?. . . my art gives meaning to my life.
What is art? Art grows from joy and sorrow, but mostly from sorrow. It grows from human lives.
I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.
I can pretty much take care of myself; I don't walk around with much fear.
I was with PolyGram; that was the big label that I was with for the longest, like 12 years.
Justification by faith alone, is the hinge upon which the whole of Christianity turns