The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

People can burn down books... but not knowledge.

I should prefer that you do not mention my name at all in connection with this case, as I choose to be only associated with those crimes which present some difficulty in their solution.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports?

Have to Find ...life ...is ...a— ...gamble ...after ...all.

Twitter can no more produce analysis than a monkey can type out a work of Shakespeare.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

No one could be the way I remember my father.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.