Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Design is everything.

You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

Turn your past wound of misery and sadness into a wonder of life.

Events That Haunt The Mind And Scar It With Nightmares Are Never What They Seem...

I don't have the best dating track record.

If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it.

My mind to me an empire is.

Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew — (Twenty bridges or twenty two) — Wanted to know what the River knew, For they were young, and the Thames was old And this is the tale that River told.

At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.

I see through my eyes, not with them.

All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.