If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

The Board can only do so much and we now have a better understanding of how this matter came to be, and we'll have a further meeting in future to discuss it again.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

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

I wish they would only take me as I am.