Entertain me, heroes of Olympus. Give me a reason to do more. " Bacchus to Percy and Jason
A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.
To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.
To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift. ”
I feel that talent means little unless coupled with an insatiable desire to give an excellent personal demonstration of ability. . . talent must be in company with a capacity for unlimited effort which provides the power that eventually hurdles the difficulties that would frustrate lukewarm enthusiasm.
The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.
Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form
What could smell better than supper being cooked by someone else?
Behind every great woman is a great behind!
The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.
I would rather quit public life at seventy, and quit it forever, than to retain public life at a sacrifice to my own self-respect. I will not vote for any law which will make fair for me and foul for another. The blacklist is the most cruel form of oppression ever devised by man for the infliction of suffering upon his weaker fellows.