English artists are usually entirely ruined by residence in Italy.

Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

As the wine matures in the wine bottle so doth the minds of men and woman through experience

One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.

I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.

Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, and I've chosen to make my work about that insanity.

Laughter is a celebration of our failings. That's what clowns are for. And that's what I am.

The note wasn't signed, but I could tell it was from Morelli by the way my nipples got hard.

Fundamentalism is a 20th-century phenomenon, but that kind of religious fervor actually has not always been associated with conservative goals.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.