The big artist keeps an 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.

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

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.

It is better to do the will of God than seek your own ways.

The problem is not in being sinners, the problem is when we don't let ourselves be transformed in love by the encounter with Christ.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem.

[Tyson Chandler] doesn't listen to people either. He does whatever he feels like and people will be like, "Who dressed you?"

Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things and other people, things and other people will alter towards him.

It is not the amount of knowledge that makes a brain. It is not even the distribution of knowledge. It is the interconnectedness.

This man I was going with asked me for my finger measurements. I thought he was going to buy me a ring for Christmas, but he gave me a bowling ball.

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

As an actress, the joy of being able to play the three sides of any woman, which are the glamour, the pragmatic and the one not to be messed with, is pretty glorious.