If you are not going to get a thrill, how can you give someone else one? You must feel the beauty of the thing before you start.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

The deepest wounds aren't the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

Give me a book, ” she said. “A book of sermons, anything.”“What do you want a book for?”“I want words. I’ve got to have more words. I was kept stupid on purpose.

If you have a ministry, dedicate yourself to it, do everything with love and with a clean heart

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

Forsake Alcohol, eat grapes instead!

An ounce of behavior is worth a pound of words.

Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it.