I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

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.

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.

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.

If one can know how good a city is by its smell, one should know how good a society is by the women's status.

Not by refraining from action does man attain freedom from action. Not by mere renunciation does he attain supreme perfection.

If a man has done evil in his life, he must not be complimented in marble.

We have the alternative. "Do I want to be on the subway looking at these people, or do I want to be in my phone looking at my people?"

Egotism is not a good quality. It's not something to be admired or even tolerated. It wouldn't be tolerated in a field commander and it shouldn't be tolerated in a movie director.

Your dreams are always going to seem much more profound to you then they are to your friend.

When you work for something, you appreciate it more. So what are y'all going to do with all the opportunities you inherited that you didn't have to work for?

As I said, the matter of the Pan African Parliament was raised with us by other African countries who said we should host.

Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?