There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence transform a yellow spot into sun.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Doors of opportunity are always open around you—you just have to find them.

Big writers become a kind of shared climate.

(...) when a man's looking down the double barrel of a shotgun, he picks up the first weapon he can find to defend himself, be it a stone or a stick of stove wood or a citizens' council.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

I think weather affects my mood a lot more than I thought, and I like to be in bad moods sometimes.

It is the ordinary woman who knows something about love; the gorgeous ones are too busy being gorgeous.

I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.

the position of women, that sad and well-nigh universal blot on civilizations, was never far from her mind.

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

By how much one man has more experience of things past, than another, by so much also he is more prudent, and his expectations the seldomer fail him.