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"I'm not interested in just copying a photograph. I'm interested in the transformation that takes place when you make a painting."
"The city is my subject. It's endlessly fascinating to me."
"I don't think of myself as a photorealist. I think of myself as a realist painter."
The mystery of reality is what keeps me painting.
I don't paint what I see, I paint what I understand.
Reality is always richer than any idea we can have of it.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measure anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
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.
Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.