A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

The importance of colour is as nothing compared with that of form, chiaroscuro and arrangement. They are the true and enduring bases of pictorial art.

Rhythm is as necessary in a picture as pigment; it is as much a part of painting as of music.

Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.

The earliest fisherman catches the fattest fish.

If you are a singer, you must sing. If you are a dancer, you must dance. If you are a writer, you must write. Don’t suffocate your heart.

Conformity is a cage that confines our ability to think. It is a cage that hinders growth and deters individualism

She killed to get the dream she wanted, then found out it didn't want her back.

If we are not submitted to Jesus Christ, then the forces of darkness will not be subject to us.

I'm very attracted to poetry for all the reasons someone likes poetry. The notion of compression seems to fit my personality.

And soften'd sounds along the waters die: Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.

Husband a lie, and trump it up in some extraordinary emergency.

The future belongs to the free.

The manifesto of the dealmaker is simple: Reality is negotiable.