Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
Since we have to speak well of the dead, let's knock them while they're alive.
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.
When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.
Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.
From an endless dream we have come. In an endless dream we are living. To an endless dream we shall return.
[Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.
The intensity of a national culture should be represented by. . . the general education level and. . . the exceptional merit of a small elite of pioneers.
I believe that everyone has the fundamental right to head to city hall with the person they love and get married. Period.