Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

Don't put needless expense into painting a head! Don't try to match tints! Rose and pearly colours blend into each other so that no one can unite them if painted separately. Keep the impression of your subject as one thing!

I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.