Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

Art happens-no hovel is safe from it, no prince may depend upon it, the vastest intelligence cannot bring it about.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

Nature is usually wrong.

Frederic Leighton to James McNeill Whistler: 'My dear Whistler, you leave your pictures in such a sketchy, unfinished state. Why don't you ever finish them?' James McNeill Whistler to Frederic Leighton: 'My dear Leighton, why do you ever begin yours?

The explanation is quite simple. I wished to be near my mother.