It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

... the movements of the body reveal the movements of the soul.

Never stop dreaming, Never get satisfied, Make you goals bigger, every-time you reach them.Be more then you were, every day.

The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded.

From time to time I think I made some errors in judgment, but I have some really fashionable friends and I feel I've cultivated my own sense of style and what I feel comfortable with over the years.

People ask, quite legitimately, why [Betsy] DeVos and why not a lot of the others? But it's because it has to do with the special interest groups that run a lot of Washington.

Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic.

Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

I grew up in Bedford, N.Y., and it was close enough to Jones Beach on Long Island that every summer my mother would pack the car for the day, and we would drive to the beach!

Indiscretion has always seemed to me to be one of the privileges of tact.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.