Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

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.

The battle is tough but if you reach where you want to go, then at least in some sense it is worth it.

This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility.

Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.

Things don't happen to you, they happen for you.

A strong onslaught of the nagual would upset your balance completely.

It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

I think I'm likely to be certified before Perl is.

Disease is a non-partisan problems that requires a non-partisan solution.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.