For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

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.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

Greed is taking more than you need to feed. Avarice is hoarding, and stockpiling stolen, rotten goods.

You live like comfortable strangers. Like characters in a play.

Why do we have this desire to tease the innocent? Is it envy?

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his sons the hardships that made him rich.

This is the age othe common man, they tell us-a title which any man may claim to the extent osuch distinction as he has managed not to achieve.

I started Michael years ago. I saw him in Gary, Indiana, and we'd have him on the talent shows. He kind of emulated me, and did the best he could.

As long as I'm in this city, I'm a lightning rod, ... People don't like me for a lot of reasons and I create all of them. I love it when they hate me. All my closest friends hate me.

NYC, You Inspire Me to never stop exploring the endless possibilities of food.

Any good thing you say to me shall not be forgotten. I shall carry it as near to my heart as my children, and it shall be as often on my tongue as the name of the Great Spirit.