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.

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.

The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

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

You shouldn't say it is not good. You should say, you do not like it; and then, you know, you're perfectly safe.

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.

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

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

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.

If other people are going to talk, conversation becomes impossible.

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

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

Insanity is contagious.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

First come, first served

Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile.

Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

My hair has never been my greatest feature, so that was funny enough unto itself that my hair became so focused on.

On the 'Revenge' set, even if they're not showing my feet, I'll still wear my heels because it gets me in the feeling of Ashley Davenport.

Seek women mentors. If you're a businesswoman, look at the TEDx conferences. There's a lot of businesswomen that speak on there. I find them extremely inspiring.

I can't say I had an ideal father, and I'm not a father myself.

Memory…like an old musical box it will lie silent for long years; then a mere nothing, a jerk, a tremor, will start the spring, and from beneath its decent covering of dust it will talk to us of forgotten passion and desire.

When you start your first band and it has an impact on the rest of the world you go through a lot with those guys and you become very protective of that legacy.

A babysitter is a teenager acting like an adult while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

When you get into the final week of the Tour de France, it becomes a different kind of race. As the distance and the fatigue really tell, that is when it becomes a proper test of everyone's fitness.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

Seriously, a smaller, leaner, cleaner, tuskless and more secretive elephant is exactly what is needed. It definitely would live longer.

Lately I did a film called All I Want for Christmas and it was well received. This gave me a new point of view and a new respect for my work as an actress.

I always thought I was a pretty terrible actor.

I populated 'The Bourne Identity' with real characters from American history, specifically characters from the Iran-Contra affair, which my father ran the investigation of. But at the heart of it was a fictional character.

I was an independent developer and started Junction Point in January of 2005.

You can forgive somebody and still believe they need a consequence.

The scariest stunt I've ever done was on 'Captain America.' We were doing some underwater sequence. I was in a submarine, and Chris Evans had to break the glass, and the water had to fill up quickly in the submarine.