Art strives for structure, and aspires for magnificence.

The artist is the person who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.

The ideal artist is he who knows everything, feels everything, experiences everything, and retains his experience in a spirit of wonder and feeds upon it with creative lust.

Try everything that can be done. Be deliberate. Be spontaneous. Be thoughtful and painstaking. Be abandoned and impulsive. Learn your own possibilities.

I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point.

Try everything that can be done.... Learn your own possibilities.

For we are all walking each other to our deaths, and the journey between footsteps makes up our lives

To be a disciple is to be committed to Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord and committed to following Him every day. To be a disciple is also to be disciplined in our bodies, minds, and souls.

Life comes from physical survival but the good life comes from what we care about.

True change happens within not without

The best way to give assistance to those who are deeply embarrassed and to calm them down is to praise them decisively.

There are as many mediocrities exalted through pity as masters decried through envy.

The work of a mother is hard, too often unheralded work. Please know that it is worth it then, now, and forever.

I'd rather not do anything. Guys want you more when you don't. Young girls should know that.

Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.

We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased.