"Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers."

“There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.”

“Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.”

“My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.”

“I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.”

“The lie is, even if you do work out, you'll never look like Madonna. That's the lie.”

“One has to seek Beauty and Truth, Sir! As I always say to my pupils, you have to work to the finish. There's only one kind of painting. It is the painting that presents the eye with perfection, the kind of beautiful and impeccable enamel you find in Veronese and Titian.”

Source : "French paintings from the Chrysler Museum". Book by Jefferson C. Harrison, Chrysler Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, Birmingham Museum of Art (Birmingham, Ala.), p.45, 1986.

“Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.”

Source : "To villanelle and back" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

“There's nothing like having a history with someone, when you're in a foreign land.”