Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Art is difficult transient is her reward.

A thing, until it is everything, is noise, and once it is everything it is silence.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

The success of a businessperson can be measured by the problems she has successfully solved.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

You can't have success without trust... especially in businesses that deal with the public.

Freely we serve, because freely we love.

In a family, what isn't spoken is what you listen for. But the noise of a family is to drown it out.

I will venture to say there is more learning and science within the circumference of ten miles from where we now sit [in London], than in all the rest of the kingdom.

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want.