“But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.”

“...A painting was a translation of the language of my heart.”

“An idea isn't worth that much. It's the execution of the idea that has value. If you can't convince one other person that this is something to devote your life to, then it's not worth it.”

“To read is to translate, for no two persons' experiences are the same. A bad reader is like a bad translator: he interprets literally when he ought to paraphrase and paraphrases when he ought to interpret literally.”

“I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.”

“In our country for all her greatness there is one thing she cannot do and that is translate a person wholly out of one class into another. Perfect translation from one language into another is impossible. Class is the British language.”