A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms, but with intellect and decent purpose.

I loved acting. I didn’t particularly like being a movie star.

People always grumbled. If things went well they wanted them to go better. Give them comfort and they wanted luxuries.

Steve Austin will never be employee of the month!

All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

We are the ones who suffer when we hold on to past grievances.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

We need a coat with two pockets. In one pocket there is dust, and in the other pocket there is gold. We need a coat with two pockets to remind us who we are.

But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.