Enthusiasm for one's goal to lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

Strain your brain more than your eye.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Missing tiny things in our life is more painful than things that we deserve in our live

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders smooth as ravens claws.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

I want my kids to have a deep, inner feeling that it's alright to be happy, that you don't have to be constantly manufacturing problems that you don't really have.

The China game was the best because it took the effort of everyone on the team to survive 120 minutes.

Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot.

In this temple As in the hearts of the people For whom he saved the Union The memory of Abraham Lincoln Is enshrined forever

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.