• I should really live in the mountains, but it’s impossible to paint in the mountains, at any rate for me. I need the city; I need to know there are people around me strolling, arguing, fucking—living, and yet I go out very rarely; I stay here in my cage. But I know there are people around me and that is enough.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• My painting is a representation of life, my own life above all, which has been very difficult. So perhaps my painting is very violent, but this is natural to me.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• My painting is not violent; it’s life that is violent. I have endured physical violence, I have even had my teeth broken. Sexuality, human emotion, everyday life, personal humiliation - violence is part of human nature.
  Francis Bacon Quotes
• There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.
  Conrad Hilton Quotes
• I went through a big stage of my life where I thought, you know, maybe it would be better to be a vegetarian, so I researched it. In no uncertain terms did I research it. Let's say this represents one cow, which will keep me in food for, let's say, a month. Now that cow needs this much land and food. Well, you can imagine, that cow needs x by x amount of land, and you can grow trees in it. Around that cow, you can have goannas, kangaroos, wallabies. You can have every other single Australian animal in and around that cow.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• I have a deep-seated respect for parrots. As gifted as I am with all other wildlife, parrots have this uncanny desire to kill me. I'm not sure why, but they're like my kryptonite!
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• Antarctica is our most important critical wilderness and we have to do everything we can to ensure that it is protected for all future generations.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• If I was a vegetarian, to feed me for that month, I need this much land, and nothing else can grow there. Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me. So when this croc's belting around and going off and I'm hanging around, you're there. That's what I want. I want you to use every sensation that you can, every sense that you've got - your sight, your hearing, your feelings, your smell. You know that poo, I want you to smell it. That is so completely natural.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• Me and my wife, we sleep and live the wild life. That's all I do. Rescuing and educating people about wildlife, so I travel through our new movie just being me. I didn't' have to worry about the script. I didn't have to worry about the story. All I had to do was just go through the movie and instead of using video cameras, we had 35mm cameras shoot me and I just breezed on through it. However, that's just my world. There was another world, the world of CIA, spies, people trying to get me, satellites, intelligence and intrigue. You couldn't get any more action, adventure and fun.
  Steve Irwin Quotes
• I really don't do much beauty things at all. It's really the stylists and make-up artists who make me look great for award shows and those girlie things. But I feel most beautiful when I'm not working and I'm in some country feeling natural with my hot, sweaty glow.
  Angelina Jolie Quotes
• I have two lovers who I've been meeting in hotels for two years now and it's now difficult for me to do, but it did take a couple of days to broke an understanding of the nature of this sort of relationship before we slept together.
  Angelina Jolie Quotes
• An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepare the mastery which will later enable him to express himself in his own language.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• Those who work in a preconceived style, deliberately turning their backs on nature, miss the truth. An artist must recognize, when he is reasoning, that his picture is an artifice; but when he is painting, he should feel that he has copied nature. And even when he departs from nature, he must do it with the conviction that it is only to interpret her more fully.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• A distinction is made between painters who work directly from nature and those who work purely from imagination. Personally, I think neither of these methods must be preferred to the exclusion of the other. Both may be used in turn by the same individual, either because he needs contact with objects in order to receive sensations that will excite his creative facility, or because his sensations are already organized.
  Henri Matisse Quotes
• The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place; from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• Everyone wants to understand art. Why don’t we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
  Pablo Picasso Quotes
• I don’t paint nature, I am nature.
  Jackson Pollock Quotes