Venus herself, if she were bold, would not be Venus.

Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.

It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned.

If I keep my good character, I shall be rich enough.

Poverty is the discoverer of all the arts.

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself.

A Mercury is not made out of any block of wood.

I little esteeme to see your visage and figure, little doe I regard the night and darknesse thereof, for you are my only light.

Making the best of things is a damn poor way of dealing with them. My life has been a series of escapes from that quicksand.

To do great things is difficult but to command great things is more difficult.

There is no gains without pain.

If you don't think you've got the blues, just keep living, and if you don't think you're drunk, just keep drinking what you're drinking.

I lost 28 pounds in my divorce... because that's what a soul weighs.

It's a faithless love, but you hit four good shots and you've started your day right.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

Worry is a way to pretend that you have knowledge or control over what you don't--and it surprises me, even in myself, how much we prefer ugly scenarios to the pure unknown.