There are people who may be trusted, men as well as women. There are are as many difference in their natures as there are flowers in these meadows.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and food on the table. Fat commissions are good, but not always easy to come by, and each new painting takes its time. So we need to find every way possible to earn extra income from our work.