Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

Such as the sun, let us love everyone, now feel and behold, the dance of your spirit and joy of your soul.

Everything happens for a reason, we just don't get the reason with the thing

I look at her face, so content, so happy. Even more beautiful all flushed with passion and think of how lucky a man I really am.

Despite the way she rallied, the haunted look in her eyes was enough to break him, as lost and lonely as an abandoned child’s.

Racists are everywhere, but historically speaking the real danger came from Progressives that desired the power of the state to engineer society upon a racial lines.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

What is generally missed, is that my writing financed research.

I learned how to change a cloth diaper on a raccoon, i was maybe 8 or 9.

Don't count on others to hand your life to you.

Man is about the same, in the main, whether with despotism, or whether with freedom.