It is not the how of painting but the why. To imitate a style would be a little like teaching a tone of voice or a personality.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

The rest is silence.

The sicker our fans get, the sicker we'll get

Verily, men do foolish things thoughtlessly, knowing not why; but no woman doeth aught without a reason.

When love is suppressed hate takes its place.

Cinema is not a series of abstract ideas, but rather the phrasing of moments.

Grandpa ... was ever ready to cheer and help me, ever sure that I was a remarkable specimen. He was a dear old man who asked little from life and got less.

Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

Keep working towards improving on yourself and keep working towards your dreams and goals because no one else will for you.

In a smaller church your pastoring sets up your preaching. In a larger church your preaching sets up your pastoring.

They don't want to feed an ISIS narrative that there is a religious war between Islam and the Christian West, plus genocide is carefully defined under international law.