I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

I propose that a teacher's pay be tied to merit, not tenure. And I propose that a teacher's employment be tied to performance, not just showing up.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

I don't have to explain or defend the will of God. My job is simply to obey it.

It was tough attempting to be social with people who'd rather pretend you didn't exist.

Can clearly say Vegemite is horrible! Like tryin' new stuff though.

Good art and a good life answers questions. Great art and a great life asks questions.

True learning takes energy, passion and a burning desire.