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

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

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.

If silicon had been a gas I should have been a major-general.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

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!

Can't a person be born where they want to be born?