All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air.

Throw your heart into the picture and then jump in after it.

He who jumps for the moon and gets it not leaps higher than he who stoops for a penny in the mud.

Paint your picture by means of the lights. Lights define texture and color - shadows define form.

Art is the expression of those beauties and emotions that stir the human soul.

What is done is done; and the cracked egg cannot be cured.

I think it likely that some of my pupils will reach unusual distinction.

Talk about life - but in your own way.

I put on my dream-cap one day and stepped into Wonderland.

I take back all I ever said about the Old Masters. They give great lessons.

Paint ideas, paint thought.

Products are only gotten from a time well converted and that financial wealth is a product of time.

My heart is broken and I grieve, for I have known love. Your heart is broken and you grieve, for you have not.

Fear is an abortion of good thoughts

We are a dream of a thought which lives trough the Word.

As everyone in Louisiana knows, there was often no communication or coordination between the state and federal government in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

There appears to be momentum towards more and more misunderstandings between religions, a degradation of relations.

Consider incompleteness as a verb.

It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.

Those not present are always wrong.

Also, while I was at Yale, I had a job teaching kids at the museum.