The big artist .. . keeps a sharp eye on Nature and steals her tools.

A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

Strain your brain more than your eye.

Strain your brain more than your eye... You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.

When you first commence painting everything is a muddle. Even the commonest colors seem to have the devil in them.

How beautiful an old woman's skin is! All those wrinkles!

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

The brush is a more powerful and rapid tool than the point or the stump... the main thing that the brush secures is the instant grasp of the grand construction of a figure.

My honors are misunderstanding, pesecution and neglect, enhanced because unsought.

Enthusiasm for one's goal lessens the disagreeableness of working toward it.

Of course, it is well to go abroad and see the works of the old masters, but Americans... must strike out for themselves, and only by doing this will we create a great and distinctly American art.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

With television, we vault ourselves into a continuous, incoherent present.

Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.

Everybody always wants to rebel against their parents' music, but nobody listened to music louder than my dad.

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

The Government of the United States possesses no power whatever over the question of religion.

Without a song, each day would be a century.

As for our gods, we have a few too many to be true.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.