Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Civilization is paralysis.

Painting is the most beautiful of all arts. In it, all sensations are condensed, at its aspect everyone may create romance at the will of his imagination, and at a glance have his soul invaded by the most profound memories, no efforts of memory, everything summed up in one moment. Complete art which sums up all the others and completes them.

There are two sorts of beauty; one is the result of instinct, the other of study. A combination of the two, with the resulting modifications, brings with it a very complicated richness, which the art critic ought to try to discover.

It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.

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

Stay firmly in your path and dare; be wild two hours a day!