Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

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.

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

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

If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.

Poverty is a culture cultivated by a poor mindset which can not evolve or accept possibilities of rising higher .

I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career

All Hell is smaller than one pebble of your earthly world; but it is smaller than one atom of this world, the Real World.

Whose gold is double with a careful hand, His cares are double.

We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves.

Those who are certain of the outcome can afford to wait, and wait without anxiety.

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

Spirituality is not for sale. It must be developed.