I wish you to be persuaded that success in your art depends almost entirely on your own industry; but the industry which I principally recommend is not the industry of the hands, but of the mind.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

I find people with depression are like a broken clocks, and clock maker after clock maker will try to fix you, but sometimes time itself is the answer.

The Bible says there is a certain pleasure in sin.However, it is short-lived and fatal.

Jealousy is the tie that binds, and binds, and binds.

For me, peace should provide security to the Jewish people.

... but food eaten quickly isn't food.

There is no logical reason why thoughts, which have no substance, should have so much power over you, nor is there any reason why you should become their slave

I think that the richer and deeper documentation is on the web, the better off we all are.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic.

There is more to loving someone than just making yourself happy. You have to want him to be happier than you are.