I hate beyond hate.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

When you draw something it lives and when you photograph it it dies

Art's cruel. You can get away with murder with words. But a picture is like a window straight through to your inmost heart.

But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personality isn't worth translating.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment.

The power of women! I've never felt so full of mysterious power. Men are a joke.

I love honesty and freedom and giving. I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.

He said, one has to learn that painting well - in the academic and technical sense - comes right at the bottom of the list. I mean, you've got that ability. So have thousands.

If there is a God he's a great loathsome spider in the darkness.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

What was the opposite of linkage blindness? What described being certain of something without any kind of evidence?...The term was faith.

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

Barack H. Obama is a landmark presidential figure as the first black, multiracial, multicultural president from Hawaii and the Pacific.

We are destined not to go back to the level of animals that we've come from but to return to being by going beyond thinking.

If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like.

It's the modern world, so it's pretty much the same. Everyone follows America, from all over the world.

To me, defense is a mental attitude…it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.

The earth doesn't have a housekeeper to do the dusting. And the dust that falls on it every day remains there. Everything that's come down to us from the past has been conserved by dust.

Make preparations in advance ... you never have trouble if you are prepared for it.