I've had photographs taken for portraits because I very much prefer working from the photographs than from models... I couldn't attempt to do a portrait from photographs of somebody I didn't know.

A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

All artists are vain, they long to be recognized and to leave something to posterity. They want to be loved, and at the same time they want to be free. But nobody is free.

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.