Art will never come except from some small disregarded corner where an isolated and inspired man is studying the mysteries of nature.

It is the treating of the commonplace with the feeling of the sublime that gives to art its true power.

I want to put strongly and completely all that is necessary, for things weakly said might as well not be said at all.

A photograph is analogous to a plaster cast taken from life, which is always inferior to a good statue.

Where there is no love, put love -- and you will find love.

Every man has his fault and honesty is his.

Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

There are things we can do [with violence], and we ought to do it in a bipartisan way.

It is love that believes the resurrection.

I have wrangles with Facebook, entered fictitious trips because I can't get the map to get off my page, don't want people to know where I live. It is possible to carve out a space that's your own.

He who says o'er much I love not is in love.

If you can influence the outcome, do the work. If you can't influence the outcome, ignore the possibility. It's merely a distraction.

But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want