I want to give colors intoxication, fullness, excitement, power by trying to forget Impressionism.

In art one is usually totally alone with oneself.

I think the time is coming for struggle and uncertainty. It comes into every serious and beautiful life. I knew all along that it had to come.

I know I shall not live very long... If I've painted three good pictures, then I shall leave gladly with flowers in my hand and my hair.

How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

Nature is supposed to become greater to me than people. It ought to speak louder from me. I should feel small in the face of nature's enormity.

Lack of money rivets us firmly to the ground, one's wings are clipped.

We cleave to the past too much in Germany. All of our German art is too bogged down in the conventional... I think more highly of a free person who consciously puts convention aside.

Worpswede, Worpswede, I cannot get you out of my mind... Your magnificent pine trees! I call them my men--thick, gnarled, powerful, and tall--yet with the most delicate nerves and fibers in them.

There can never be too much loving kindness or chesed.

Mentioning violence to Bruce was like mentioning chocolate sauce to a six-year-old.

It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan.

There is no place in the world but contains some trace of God.

It's a wonderful destiny! God made no mistakes when God wrote the beautiful, unfolding pattern of delight as You!

Greatness, with private men Esteem'd a blessing, is to me a curse; And we, whom, for our high births, they conclude The happy freemen, are the only slaves. Happy the golden mean!

The sea cries with its meaningless voice, Treating alike its dead and its living

I have always believed that the decision to have an abortion generally should be between a woman, her doctor, her conscience, and her God.

Le plus beau vêtement qui puisse habiller une femme, ce sont les bras de l'homme qu'elle aime. Mais, pour celles qui n'ont pas eu la chance de trouver ce bonheur, je suis là.

I'm so Optimistic I'll take my last 2 dollars and buy a Money Belt.