A profound dislike for merely absorbing knowledge and a compulsion to learn by doing are among the most reliable signs of genius.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
I have never seen either angels or goddesses, so I am not interested in painting them.
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
When I am dead, let it be said of me: he belonged to no school, to no church, to no institution, to no academy, and least of all, to any regime except the regime of liberty.
The real motivation of the campaign to criminalize abortion is to establish the principles that women's bodies belong to the state and that women bear the responsibility for sex.
I'm not trying to sound like I turned into some kind of wise man, but it's nice to realize that your little pocket of the world isn't the whole world
I love Trinidad and I love living there, but it's quite harsh.
Republicans have offered dozens of comprehensive healthcare plans many of which achieve comprehensive healthcare reform without breaking what's working in healthcare. We want to fix what's broken in healthcare.