I see a flower. It gives me a sensation of the beautiful. I wish to paint it. And as soon as I wish to paint it I see the whole subject - flower - changed. It is now an art problem to resolve.

There is no need to express art in terms of nature. It can perfectly well be expressed in terms of geometry and the exact sciences.

One paints from nature not in order to copy, but to express feelings of grandeur.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

I cannot emphasize enough the importance of a good teacher.

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

It is better to enter into life maimed but lovely in God’s sight than to appear lovely to man’s eyes but lame to God’s.

The Cause and Effect law is the secret gearing in the machinery of Nature.

The cost of being wrong is less than the cost of doing nothing.

Abstention from labor is the conventional evidence of wealth and is therefore the conventional mark of social standing.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.