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If you hear a voice within you say you cannot paint, then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

We all have to take defeats in life.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat: he stores up a lot of poison.

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.

Genius is eternal patience.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and over and over again, but expecting a different result.

Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

I dream my painting and then paint my dream.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be...The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

Do but take care to express yourself in a plain, easy Manner, in well-chosen, significant and decent Terms, and to give a harmonious and pleasing turn to your periods.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.