Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"I have had three masters, Nature, Velasquez, and Rembrandt"

"The world is a masquerade, faces, costumes, voices, everything a lie. Each person wishes to appear what he is not. The whole world deceives itself, and no one recognizes himself"

"Imagination without reason produces impossible monsters; with reason, it becomes the mother of the arts, and the source of its marvels"

"I have now established an enviable way of living, and if anyone wants anything from me they must come to me"

"Thus goes the world. We mock at and deceive each other. He who, yesterday, was the ball, is today the horseman in the ring"

"You'll kiss my ass at least seven times if I manage to convince you from the crazy happiness I got from living here"

"The dream of reason produces monsters"

"I see only forms that are lit up and forms that are not. There is only light and shadow"

"First be a magnificent artist and then you can do whatever, but the art must be first"

"As I am working for the public, I must continue to amuse them"

"The act of painting is about one heart telling another heart where he found salvation"

"I have no fear of Witches, goblins, ghosts or thugs"

"United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty"

"My brush should not see better than I do"

A chemist who is not a physicist is nothing at all"

"It is good people who make good places"

"I am never afraid of what I know"

"I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest"

"There is nothing more artistic than loving people"

"I felt my energy revive, and said to myself, In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"

"Someone has a great fire in his soul and nobody ever comes to warm themselves at it, and passers-by see nothing but a little smoke at the top of the chimney and then go on their way"

"It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much"

"It is better to be high-spirited, even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent"

"This is the essence of Rembrandt's genius. It's his sympathy for humankind which makes his art eternal"

"There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in the blue, then you must put in the yellow and orange too, mustn't you?"

"I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it"

"My whole life is aimed at making the things from everyday life that Dickens describes and these artists draw"

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly coloured than the day"

"Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it"

"Exaggerate the essential, leave the obvious vague"

"I'm all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I'll always remain half crazy"

"Art is to console those who are broken by life"

"A good picture is equivalent to a good deed"

"I dream of painting and then I paint my dream"

"There is peace even in the storm"

"Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me"

"I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger"

"I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough , what is enough?"

"I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process"

"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything"

"What is done in love, is well done"

"Conscience is a man’s compass"

"The sadness will last forever"

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed"

"Laughter is wine for the soul"

"The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony"

"That's the Irish all over - they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke"

"A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; A sigh the faint echo of a laugh"

"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves"

"When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it"

"Money is like manure; It should be spread around"

"Power is the ability to do good things for others"

"When I was 40, I used to wonder what people thought of me. Now I wonder what I think of them"

"Sometimes I worry - it's all been going too well - a role I love to play in a series that's about as good as you can get. Something's wrong"

"I was trying to make it by doing films and TV movies"

"They remain timely, with cases about points of law that are still current"

"I basically am a ghost. I think we all are"

"With friends like these, who needs hallucinations?"

"People are smarter than you might think"

"The world is, for the most part, a collective madhouse"

"Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down"

"Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius"

"Women are a problem, but if you haven't already guessed, they are the kind of problem I enjoy wrestling with"

"A director needs to be in control, but he really shouldn't be in complete control, because then things could be very boring"

"The difference between being directed and directing yourself is the difference between making love and masturbating"

"I'd rather ride down the street on a camel than give what is sometimes called an in-depth interview"

"I'm ready for the unexpected. I think that's important. You can't plan too much"

"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play"

"Polygamy is dumb fun. Monogamy requires much more sensitivity"

"I'm old, I'm young, I'm intelligent, I'm stupid. My tide goes in and out"

"Charity is taking an ugly girl to lunch"

"My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note for two twenties"

"Movies are fun, but they're not a cure for cancer"

"The Golden Globes are fun. The Oscars are Business"

"Even the promiscuous feel pain"

"Government is not show business"

"I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex"

"We didn't really have a band with Cream. We rarely played as an ensemble; we were three virtuosos, all of us soloing all the time"

"In my lowest moments, the only reason I didn't commit suicide was that I knew I wouldn't be able to drink anymore if I was dead"

"All I am certain of right now is that I don't want to go anywhere, and that's not bad for someone who always used to run"

"Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bullshit attached"

"Music survives everything, and like God, it is always present. It needs no help, and suffers no hindrance"

"Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it's the last time"

"It's been up to me to inspire me"

"One of the most beneficial things I've ever learned is how to keep my mouth shut"

"Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over"

"The only planning I do is about a minute before I play"

"Give me a guitar and I'll play; Give me a stage and I'll perform; Give me an auditorium and I'll fill it"

"Plant your love and let it grow"

"I am, and always will be, a blues guitarist"

"The Stratocaster is as good as it gets"

"I sometimes worry that all the beautiful things have been made"

"Is it just me, or is the world full of beautiful women?"

"I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years"

"My children have more stamina than a power station"

"I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher"

"Every dollar you save this year saves you two next year"

"Having a baby dragged me, kicking and screaming, from the world of self-absorption"

"There was just no transition. You hit the ground diapering"

"Upstate New York in the middle of October. You can't get more beautiful than that"

"Get a good dog. We have not picked up food in the kitchen in 15 years"

"Happiness is the quiet lull between problems"

"The sky is the beginning of the limit"

"One of the strangest things in the rap language is the word or the phrase "sellout." What is really means is why didn't it happen to me?"

"Money has never been an issue with me. I will make and continue to make plenty of money"

"You don't have to invent the wheel, but you might want to be the company that invents the rims"

"I think it is a shock to people to find out that MC Hammer is a super geek"

"I'd like to live as if only love mattered"

"I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives"

"We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world"

"I learn all these things about the record talking about it after it's finished"

"I always loved school and thought it was my way out of Cleveland, and out of poverty"

"Like every audition I go on, I do my best, but after that, I let it go because, you know, the rejection rate is so great in Hollywood"

"Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur"

"There is a certain advantage to the British accent. I do notice that Americans love it; they think the we Brits are smarter than perhaps we are"

"Susan Boyle has never experienced anything like this and is like a frightened rabbit in headlights"

"I get more excited about being around cricket legends than I ever do around Hollywood stars"

"I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag"

"I think that variety is the key to our success. It is what makes us different"

"There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics"

"Bowie and Lennon were to me the greatest British rock stars of them all"

"I want to interview the most important people in the world"

"I'm not in competition with anybody but myself. My goal is to beat my last performance"

"Its the moment you think you can't that you realize you can"

"Don't make your career be your life. let it be your passion. Let it bring you pleasure. But don't let it become your identity"

"Love doesn't ask why, speaks from the heart, and never explains"

"There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful"

"I want to be more successful as a mother than I am in show business"

"I know this may come as a letdown to some guys out there, but ... I got straight A's through school, graduated at the top of my class, attended college, and excelled in math and science"

"Living in LA, it's hard to imagine that there are millions of people in the world living in abject poverty"

"All is fair in love and songwriting"

"I try to just make music that I love, and if I believe in it that's all that matters"

"Success and the art of making music are two different things for me"

"Playing music is one of my great joys in life"

"Your limitations create your sound"