I arrange my subject as I want, then I begin to paint it like a child.

Why should art not be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

I invent nothing; I rediscover.

-- Auguste Rodin

Why should art not be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.

-- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Bodily pain does not last without limit; intense pain is brief in duration.

-- Epicurus

One swallow does not make a spring.

-- Aristotle

People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

-- Claude Debussy

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

-- Henri Bergson