Art is limited to the infinite, and beginning there cannot progress.

I always ask at once, 'Do you drink?' and if she says 'No,' I bow politely and say I am sorry but I fear she will not suit. All good cooks drink.

Over and over again did the Attorney-General cry out aloud, in the agony of his cause, 'What is to become of painting if the critics withhold their lash?

For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand - fearing naught and dreading no exposure.

Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.