There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal

But I owe something to Vincent, and that is, in the consciousness of having been useful to him, the confirmation of my own original ideas about painting. And also, at difficult moments, the remembrance that one finds others unhappier than oneself.

Nothing so resembles a daub as a masterpiece.

We never really know what stupidity is until we have experimented on ourselves.

I have always wanted a mistress who was fat, and I have never found one. To make a fool of me, they are always pregnant.