You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures, as the keyboard contains the notes of all music. But the artists is born to pick, and choose, and group with science, these elements, that the result may be beautiful - as the musician gathers his notes, and forms his chords, until he brings forth from chaos glorious harmony

As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color.

To say of a picture, as is often said in its praise, that it shows great and earnest labour, is to say that it is incomplete and unfit for view.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.