All the best artists have shown that the greatest achievement in the production of fine color is the concealment of pigments, and not the parade of them; and we may say the same of execution.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.

I would sooner look for figs on thistles than for the higher attributes of art from one whose ruling motive... is money.

Waste not your time on broad sketches in color.

A man's true character comes out when he's drunk.

Hate is infectious, but so is love, the difference between the two is one takes effort and the other one doesn’t.

The true beauty of a woman is her inherent ability to make better a man in every way.

It's so easy to get caught up in doing and achieving that we often neglect to make time to be with the people we care about most.

But I still do believe that there are useful things to say about Elvis Presley, including what his own ordinariness as a poor Southerner says about 20th-century hero-making.

If you don’t deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it’s gonna hurt.

Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way.

Beethoven's last quartets were written by a deaf man and should only be listened to by a deaf man.

If one completes the journey to one's own heart, one will find oneself in the heart of everyone else.

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.