Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

For ages past the Genius of Literature and the Genius of Art have walked together hand in hand. For the Goddess of letters is blind, and only she of Art can lend her sight.

If you work your hardest and you do your best, then the rest is not in your control, but in God's Hands.

I might be a freak, but I preferred to keep that part of my personality private.

Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Savings & Loan; Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.

What's exquisitely weird about the Donald Trump/Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel formulation is that this isn't even a case about race.

I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a way, it's an exhausting thing to live with.

Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit.

I've cried over string arrangements.

Colonel Walker, did it ever occur to you that General Jackson is crazy?

We [ Paverment] were definitely unafraid of playing wrong notes and singing wrong things. We could be fearlessly bad!