Illness is the opposite of freedom. It makes everything impossible.
The world is divided into two classes - invalids and nurses.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
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.
The clans began to bombard the outer force field with rockets, missiles, nukes, and harsh language.
What reason is there that he which laboreth much, and, sparing the fruits of his labor, consumeth little, should be more charged than he that, living idly, getteth little and spendeth all he gets, seeing the one hath no more protection from the commonwealth than the other?
It's been liberating to be able to play someone who's a bada– or promiscuous, because that's the opposite of who I am … It's like a drug.
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.