Bad artists always admire each others work.

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

Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

Dead artists always bring out an older, richer crowd.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.