 I am not arguing with you - I am telling you. |
| Work alone will efface the footsteps of work. |
| An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision. |
| It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait. |
| I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring. |
| The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell. |
| An artist's career always begins tomorrow. |
| If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
