To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.

An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

God’s reaction towards things is different from ours and He wishes that our reaction will line up with His

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.

I see the progress typical in some of my poems as starting with something simple and moving into something more demanding. This is certainly the pattern of weird poetry.

Prajñāpāramitā Buddhism is not a religion suitable for the brainless

Violence against women is as American as apple pie. I know, not only as a legislator, but from personal experience.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

I love to work. You want to talk about natural highs? There's nothing like it.

I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.