I have been using art as a means to the emotions of life and reading into it the ideas of life.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

Reading every day keeps the brain dead sickness away.

Love.. Can me mean things..

I think you can have 10, 000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

Every morning, I make myself a cappuccino with a drawing in the foam. I post them to Instagram with the hashtag #christiecappuccino.

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing.

The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains.

Nor is it strange That after changes upon changes, we are more or less the same

Refuse to let an old person move into your body.