Biologically I'm 25, chronologically I'm 53, psychologically it varies.
A picture is finished when all trace of the means used to bring about the end has disappeared.
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.
We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me "Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him.
If you went in search of it, you would not find the boundaries of the soul, though you traveled every road-so deep is its measure [logos].
What's your name?" Donald. " Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.
You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing