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I paint people not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be.
"I'm not trying to fool anyone into thinking it's a photograph. I'm trying to make a painting that has its own reality."
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I understand.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
The state is not a work of art; it is a necessity.
It is not the task of history to judge, but to understand.
The greatest tragedy is not death, but forgetting one's mother tongue.
The true poem is written not with ink but with blood.
The greatest crimes are not committed by those who break the rules, but by those who follow them to the letter.
Happiness is not the absence of suffering, but the ability to overcome it.
Hope is not a feeling; it is a doable, dramatic action.
The weight of guilt is measured not in years, but in sleepless nights.