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

To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.

Nature is usually wrong.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

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.

I remember that at one time I always made a drawing before going to bed!! - Of myself I mean - though I finally destroyed most of them.

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?