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

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.

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.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

Breaking into the house in the middle of the night just wasn't his style. He did his best work in plain view, and, usually, his tongue was doing most

Anyone in the comedy world knows that Horatio Sanz and Chris Parnell are two of the funniest guys around.

He who seeks freedom for anything but freedom's self is made to be a slave.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

It's what we do for each other that heals.

Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth.

I did try to go to college and try to be an English major.

Leaders express feelings that other leaders sense.

We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.

Go to American Apparel; they have all of the colors of socks.