My objective in teaching my pupils is that they should be fitted for any kind of art.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

I'm crazy, Zed.' There, I'd admitted it.'Uh-huh. And I'm crazy too -about you.

Most empty promises are a result of excitement.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

I, being born a woman and distressed By all the needs and notions of my kind.

You can not divorce religious belief and public service. I've never detected any conflict between God's will and my political duty. If you violate one, you violate the other.

So that's the ghost you been running from.

It's not often real that you encounter the real person behind a good-natured mask, the darkest part of someone. It's not comfortable what you do.

I grew up in a time when it would never have occurred to anyone to tell me there was anything I couldn't do.