If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

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.

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.

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.

Love is the only highway to happiness.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

Who is a Jew? A person whose integrity decays when unmoved by the knowledge of wrong done to other people.

No country without an atom bomb could properly consider itself independent.

You're real selfish and everything is focused on you and how you feel until you realize there is something missing and that's your relationship with Jesus Christ.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

Improv requires your audience to be informed about what improv is. With stand-up, anybody can sit down and watch stand-up and laugh at jokes.

Because of you, I laugh a little harder, cry a little less, and smile a lot more.

The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn't need more of that from me.

The inequality between the world's individuals is staggering.