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

You would not think that birds who have no brain at all could become so friendly. I swear some of them are more intelligent than many humans, but that says more about our fellow beings than it does about the birds.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

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.

Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.