It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe, Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

I'm a person who likes to give 100 percent to everything I do. I want to be the best at my job and as a mother.

Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

If you want to write in a mature and interesting way, you have to have sympathy for everyone that's involved.

Reprisals are but a sad resource.

I will keep the promise I made to you to open a new era on the Korean peninsula, based on strong security and trust-based diplomacy.

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

Bach almost persuades me to be a Christian.

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.