A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

You don't have to live with whatever life throws you--or whatever you've gotten yourself into...You can choose to Change Your Story!

Everyone has baggage, maybe we should help each other carry it.

The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.

I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them

We're running a war by politicians and we're running a war by political correctness as per that question [with ISIS].

Why shouldn't I milk it? We're an agricultural institution.

I spend so much time with my parents. My mom and I were joined at the hip for five years. There was not one moment when I wasn't with her.

I'm trying to encourage my children's generation and the other ones coming to return to basic American principles.

In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary.

Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.