Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.

You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

I think everybody can be beautiful. Anybody can have beauty. It's about how you look at the world, in a way, and how you treat yourself.

To paint well, I need to be enraptured by my subjects.

Theres something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. Thats something I wanted in my paintings.

I lived in London for a time in the '90s and I love it here. You know, I just go and see shows and have great dinners and walk around.

If art is any good, it has so much of a longer trajectory than one night. Contemporary art is separate from art openings. In the end, it depends on the strength of ideas in each piece.

Over time, hidden truths morph in the dark soil of deceit into something much worse.

The bride's about to throw her bouquet, " Mom told me the day after she turned 96. "Come on, June, get me up there!" (She stole the bouquet and kept it.)

Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Do you like a good ghost story?”-Jonah

Reason lies betweene the spurre and the bridle. [Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.]

I call Steve Bannon the general of our campaign. It's true.

We all love to see women on top, and as the record shows, this next powerful woman is always on top. She does it all by living for love.

Because she deserved my tears if anyone on earth ever did. I could feel the tears within me, undiscovered, and untouched in their inland sea. Those tears had been with me always.

Fraternal love is the nearest testimony that we can give that Jesus is alive among us.

But I have long thought that if you knew a column of advertisements by heart, you could achieve unexpected felicities with them. You can get a happy quotation anywhere if you have the eye.