Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me.

I wish you would recollect that Painting and Punctuality mix like Oil and Vinegar, and that Genius and regularity are utter Enemies and must be to the end of time.

We love a genius for what he leaves and mourn him for what he takes away

Fools talk of imitation and copying, all is imitation

Many a real genius is lost in the fictitious character of the Gentleman. I am the most inconsistent, changeable being so full of fits and starts.

He (the immigrant father) would walk by proxy in the Elysian fields of liberal learning.

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

She believed in herself maybe more than other people believed in God or the devil or Heaven or Hell.

Power is paradoxical.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Two wrongs may not make a right, but a thousand wrongs make a writer.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

The purpose of architecture is to shelter and enhance man's life on earth and to fulfill his belief in the nobility of his existence.

It's not like I'm cooking! I'm breastfeeding - I feel like that's the best cooking I could do.

Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.