Life is a marshmallow, easy to chew but hard to swallow.

To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.

Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas.

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.

Very few people have a natural feeling for painting, and so, of course, they naturally think that painting is an expression of the artist's mood. But it rarely is. Very often he may be in greatest despair and be painting his happiest paintings.

It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.