You must try to match your colors as nearly as you can to those you see before you, and you must study the effects of light and shade on natures own hues and tints.

Life is very short... but I would like to live four times and if I could, I would set out to do no other things than I am seeking now to do.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.

Don't try to make comparisons between your own pictures. Forget what you have done and think only of making the best of what you are doing.

Combine a certain amount of indifference with your ambition. Be carefully careless. If you don't succeed today, there is always tomorrow.

Do not imagine that I would disregard that thing that lies beneath the mask... but be sure that when the outside is rightly seen, the thing that lies under the surface will be found upon your canvas.

I don't believe in making pencil sketches and then painting landscape in your studio. You must be right under the sky.

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

It takes two to paint. One to paint, the other to stand by with an axe to kill him before he spoils it.

Design is everything.

Association with my pupils has kept me young in my work. Criticism of their work has kept my own point of view clear.

When I write sometimes I strike gold, sometimes I labor in vain and keep producing rubbish

If you are able to introduce a white person to a new cheese, it's like introducing them to a future spouse.

I'm just Phil from Rossendale. And now people are screaming for me 'cause I make YouTube videos - it's just crazy!

If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

The goal isn't more money. The goal is living life on your terms.

The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

I know of no genius but the genius of hard work.

Something the committee had not done in 50 years. Jeff Sessions is now the Chairman of the Committee that rejected him.

Weak points or holes in the opponent's position must be occupied by pieces not Pawns

I feel like there's no need to put on a heel that's too high. There's nothing cute about wobbling. There's nothing cute about not wanting to dance or walk somewhere because you're in pain.