Picabia is a very old painter who some people try to…

There is a man whose qualities can be savored by people who are getting old... The painter qualities are carried to the highest point…

— Eugene Delacroix

“Dull late-afternoon light glittered on the hanging copper pots in the kitchen where the old painter sat with his wine, smoking cigarette, a letter…

— Stephanie Cowell

I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is…

— John Constable

The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London…

— Clive James

It’s always going to be easy to live like others or other’s life, because creating or innovating something of own is always difficult in…

— Anuj

The wise man does not permit himself to set up even in his own mind any comparisons of his friends. His friendship is capable…

— Charles Dudley Warner

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one…

— Laurence Sterne

I think the first person to call me 'Britain's Obama' was Martin Bright at the New Statesman. Harriet Harman made the comparison once at…

— Chuka Umunna

Composing a piece of music is very feminine. It is sensitive, emotional, contemplative. By comparison, doing housework is positively masculine.

— Barbara Kolb

President Obama's achievements and failures must be evaluated by comparison to those chief executives who have come before him and not be measured against…

— David Garrow

You are Insignificant. One of millions, neither special nor unique. I did not ask for this ignominy, and I resent the comparison. Fine. I…

— N.K. Jemisin

I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they…

— Pope Francis

Geometry, which should only obey Physics, when united with it sometimes commands it. If it happens that the question which we wish to examine…

— Jean le Rond d'Alembert

It is exactly in the repetition of the exercises that the education of the senses exists; not that the child shall know colors, forms…

— Maria Montessori

Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,…

— Elizabeth Prentiss