An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring.

I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.

It takes a long time for a man to look like his portrait.

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.