People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.

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

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

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.

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

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