Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

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.

Man is in reality a spiritual being and only when he lives in the spirit is he truly happy.

Even the longest con was never more than an assortment of moments that were in themselves very very short.

I guess I feel very strongly that I disagree with the notion of personalizing history and movements and big events.

What ever we embrace eventually reveals the place we have been seeking.

Life is tough, but if you are stupid, it's a lot tougher.

I guess like any friendship, marriage, or whatever it is familiarity breeds more contempt, and more love. They're just more settled with each other now.

You have got to welcome and embrace complexity.

We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey.

I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.

You create your own universe as you go along.