Music criticism should be to musicians what ornithology is to the birds.
Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is.
Color was not given to us in order that we should imitate Nature. It was given to us so that we can express our emotions.
Creative people are curious, flexible, and independent with a tremendous spirit and a love of play.
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Don't wait for inspiration. It comes while one is working.
The artists must see all things as if he were seeing them for the first time. All his life he must see as he did when he was a child.
Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.
Heroes aren't always the ones who win. They're the ones who lose, sometimes. But they keep fighting, they keep coming back. They don't give up. That's what makes them heroes.
Tomorrow's just your future yesterday.
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.