I hope to begin a new plan... not sitting down to local matter but walking and watching.

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

A picture has been said to be something between a thing and a thought.

Keep your mouth shut and your eyes open.

It seems to me the charm of etching is the glimmering through of the white paper even in the shadows so that almost everything sparkles or suggest sparkles.

A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.

Rural poetry is the pleasure ground of those who live in cities.

And I will remember how we made the sun blush every morning.

I want to be a simple man with simple thoughts Because it's hard to find them in the world....but easy to Believe

How is the United States at once the most conservative and commercial AND the most revolutionary society on Earth?

The law has no power over heroes.

It's no good saying I wished I could go out more, because I can't. But I don't bother about it too much.

Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?

Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.

Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, There's no place like home.

I've found that there isn't any correlation whatsoever between the hours put in and the quality of what comes out. Most of the Beatles' songs probably originated in about five minutes.

If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.