I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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.

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

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

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

Collaboration begins with mutual understanding and respect.

Faith...is letting go and trusting oneself to the unknown.

I'm going out... because I deserve to go out! And I'm going to get drunk... because I deserve to get drunk! And get out of my way!

It's always been my belief that the victory of Islam will never take place until a Muslim state is established.. in the heart of the Islamic world.

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found?

All we do is read the stupid textbook," said Ron.

Everyone knows the rules of three's, you can survive three weeks without food, but not in this environment.

It's not what you're wearing, it's the way you wear it.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

My friend Megan Holken is a nutritionist. I have spent some time at her home upstate in Sharon Springs, where she told me how to eat right and cook right.