At the end of the day, things don't get better unless you continue to invest in your workforce. And I've not heard any Republican talk about education and the investment in the future workforce.
Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind. . . a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
Yet let us not pass from memory those left absent from our arms. Those who sacrificed their lives so that all may live free!
If people don't believe the source, then we aren't going to change their minds. We just won't.
The undertaking of a careless man succeeds not, though he use the right expedients: a clever hunter, though well placed in ambush, kills not his quarry if he falls asleep.
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.