Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.

No small dabs of colour - you want plenty of paint to paint with.

I do not judge, I only chronicle.

An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.

A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Color is an inborn gift, but appreciation of value is merely training of the eye, which everyone ought to be able to acquire.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.

A portrait is a picture in which there is just a tiny little something not quite right about the mouth.

Everyone has a different route to success, recognition, and peace. Don't be afraid to move instinctually.

Even defensive portfolios should be changed from time to time, especially if the securities purchased have an apparently excessive advance and can be replaced by issues much more reasonable priced.

No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.

[Personal] industry must be faint and languid, which is not excited by the sense of personal interest.

I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.

The definition of a page-turner really aught to be that this page is so good, you can't bear to leave it behind, but then the next page is there and it might be just as amazing as this one.

That's absurd," I said with a little laugh. "Nobody can read too much. That's like saying someone breathes too much.

If Trump remains honest and seems like a person who's authentic, he's going to go a long way.

Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death.

It stands to reason: Higher wages means higher loyalty and morale, which means higher productivity, which means a more profitable business.