The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.
I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when you see what you paint!
An artist's career always begins tomorrow
If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.