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

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.

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.

There's no such thing as a perfect relationship. It's about finding someone who matches you and will go through everything without giving up.

When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

Never ever continue to complain of lack of time all the time for no one is in possession of all the time.

Love is the kind of illness that does not spare the intelligent or the dull.

Who we shall become we are already in our souls.

Even though it's not perceivable to the mind or senses, it's there and enlightenment is absolute freedom.

My kids and my family are number one; I enjoy them the most.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

Music is all of a sudden much more colorful.

Since they came in with the selfie, it's the worst thing. You hardly ever get asked for autographs any more. It's always selfies.