In seasons of distress and grief My soul has often found relief And oft escaped the tempter's snare By thy return sweet hour of prayer.

Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.

Who is one's audience, the spiritually hostile professional art world or one's visually insensitive Christian neighbour?

Postmodernism has not overcome the problems of modernism, but only compounded them with a dosis of cynicism, relativism and indifference.

Beyond a narrow, elite audience, there is a pervasive sense from the side of the public that much contemporary art fails to connect - a failure not evident throughout centuries of earlier art.

And since He bids me seek His face Believe His word and trust His grace I'll cast on Him my every care And wait for thee sweet hour of prayer.

The very names we use to describe ancient ideas or vanished forms of social organization would be quite meaningless if we had not known living men.

The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key.

I went to public school but kept to myself. When you live in a brothel, you don't want anyone coming to your home.

A Failure in this Duty did once involve our Nation in all the Horrors of Rebellion and Civil War.

My dad worked every day. I didn't get into show business to work every day. So the fact that most days I get to like, spend really good time with my kids - that's what success is to me.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

The artist lives in an atmosphere of perpetual failure.

Law represents the effort of man to organize society; governments, the efforts of selfishness to overthrow liberty.

Faced with the way the system does you in the 'hood sometimes, if you don't literally get out, your chances are slim. You'll definitely die mentally. You'll pretty much die physically.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.