An artist's career always begins tomorrow

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.

I believe in what you see is what you get, but I also believe in what you see is getting better!

Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

I have thought about punching people out. Sometimes, I've thought, 'Why don't I just act on that impulse?' But then, I've never hit anybody in anger. Hey! I've never hit anybody for fun.

Eats first, morals after.

Today we're full of liquidity in money. And what you have to do is to convince big money to change the mindset and reinvest in these new activities to accelerate this change and create new jobs.

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.

I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

People who are complaining about the Fed are people who've been predicting runaway inflation for five and six years, and it hasn't happened.

I still feel 29. Maybe I should act my age more, but I just can't.