A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

Strain your brain more than your eye.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

We think we like or love some people until we see them regularly.

The challenges you are passing through today, are only preparing you for your success tomorrow”.

I can only run as fast as the rate of my breath.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

Monsters are born of pain, and grief, and loss, and anger. Your heart is full of them.--"And?"And it makes you vulnerable.

Before, I just spewed whatever it was I thought about everything. I tend to be more contemplative now

One deed of kindness noticed is worth forty that are told.

Whatever you do, do it for love. If you keep to that, your path will never wander so far from the light that you can never return.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

The most effective means of preventing tyranny is to illuminate, as far as practicable, the minds of the people at large, and more especially to give them knowledge of those facts.