While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

The real character of a man is found out by his amusements.

Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers.

A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.

Our Exhibitions [The Royal Academy] have... a mischievous tendency, by seducing the Painter to an ambition of pleasing indiscriminately the mixed multitude of people who resort to them.

Art in its perfection is not ostentatious; it lies hid and works its effect, itself unseen.

The great end of all arts is to make an impression on the imagination and the feeling. The imitation of nature frequently does this. Sometimes it fails and something else succeeds.

A mere copier of nature can never produce anything great.

Taste depends upon those finer emotions which make the organization of the soul.

Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

We are all human, so we may trespass each other. But there is always grace for forgiveness.

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

We were awfully poor. But we had a lot of things that money can't buy . . . like unpaid bills.

I am chairman of the Pakistan People's Party.

And the thing is, every time you start a new show or do a new series, you're committing to another six years.

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Righteousness exalteth a nation.

A pretty girl will always have the toughest time learning to play golf, because every man wants to give her lessons.

Levellers wish to level down as far as themselves; but they cannot bear levelling up to themselves.

What is school for? If you're not asking that, you're wasting time and money.