There is only one thing left for you to do, ” John Sloan advised one artist. “Pull off your socks and try with your feet.

It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes, ” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.

[I]t was [Barnett] Newman who made the famously wry remark, “Aesthetics is for the artist as ornithology is for the birds,

As George Russell defined a literary movement: “Five or six men who live in the same town and hate each other.

Gertrude’s remedy for her mood swings was to print up hundreds of black-bordered calling cards embossed with the single word “Woe, ” which she handed out gaily declaring, “Woe is me.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

My philosophy has always been, 'do what you love and the money will follow.'

Hillary Clinton spent hundreds of millions of dollars on negative ads on me, many of which are absolutely untrue. They're untrue. And they're misrepresentations.

I have found out in later years that we were very poor, but the glory of America is that we didn't know it then.

She turned towards me and narrowed her eyes...narrowed them horizontally, not vertically.

Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.

We look harder for flaws in a study when we don't agree with its conclusions.

The winner asks, "May I help?" The loser asks, "Do you expect me to do that?"