I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live. Be a man before being an artist!

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which nature herself is animated.

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

The work of art is already within the block of marble. I just chop off whatever isn't needed.

Patience is also a form of action.

Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.

The human body is first and foremost a mirror to the soul and its greatest beauty comes from that.

Art is the pleasure of a spirit that enters nature and discovers that it too has a soul.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might pray also in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

I never did anything alone. Whatever was accomplished in this country was accomplished collectively.

I can be not showered and dressed like a slob, but my lip gloss will be on!

The true worth of a soul is revealed as much by the motive it attributes to the actions of others as by its own deeds.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

It is indeed the boundary of life, beyond which we are not to pass; which the law of nature has pitched for a limit not to be exceeded.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

We've seen many Black men lose their life over the past couple of years. Not only just heard about it.

Fire doesn't fall on empty alters. There has to be a sacrifice on the alter for the fire to fall. If you want the fire of God, you must become the fuel of God.