"The best way to begin is to say: Balthus is a painter of whom nothing is known. And now let us have a look at his paintings."

"Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really."

"The craft of painting has virtually disappeared. There is hardly anyone left who really possesses it. For evidence one has only to look at the painters of this century."

"Painting is the passage from the chaos of the emotions to the order of the possible."

"Studies show that children best flourish when one mom and one dad are there to raise them."

"Wisdom principle 13 tells us that the journey of life is lesson 60."

"We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue."

"I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that."