It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world.

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Art in Nature is rhythmic and has a horror of constraint.

The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.

Our understanding is correlative to our perception.

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors.

Impressionism; it is the birth of Light in painting.

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.

Vision is the true creative rhythm.

Light in Nature creates the movement of colors.

Light comes to us by the sensibility. Without visual sensibility there is no light, no movement.

Don't work for money, work to learn

By faith in [Jesus] we can be forgiven of our sins and know the joy of following Him every day.

Truth is what works.

A President cannot always be popular.

I liked a lot of the things other people liked - Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles, Van Halen, AC/DC - but if I compared it to my dad's music, there just seemed to be elements missing.

It is right to hate sin, but not to hate the sinner.

I loved and still love watching words flower into sentences and sentences blossom into stories.

Wealth and honours, which most men pursue, easily change masters; they desert to the side which excels in virtue, industry, and endurance of toil, and they abandon the slothful.

The Infusion of a China plant sweetened with the pith of an Indian Cane.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.