A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.

Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block.

By means of tracing-paper I transfer my design to the wood and draw on that.

It is a curious fact that with 'Through the Looking-Glass' the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me... I have done nothing in that direction since.

I carry out my work thus: I never use models or nature for the figure, drapery or anything else.

from the beginning, through themiddle years and up to theend:too bad, too bad, too bad.

I cannot give you the formula for success but I can give you the formula for failure which is-try to please everybody.

You may be an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of underdone potato. There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I'm discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it's a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

The twin killers of success are impatience and greed.

I don't think there are many people up in research who have strong ideas about things that they haven't really had experience with.

I think there's a good kid underneath everybody. I really do.

I'm for capital punishment. You've got to execute people. How else are they going to learn?

The strong experience of nature... is the necessary basis for all conception of art on which rests the grandeur and beauty of all future work.

The forgetting of the history of marginalized groups is both a cause and effect of their marginalization.