Its as if you think you'd never findReason and the Sacred intertwined

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

Why put yourself in charge of Heaven's cause?Does Heaven need our help to enforce its laws?

All artists are willing to suffer for their work. But why are so few prepared to learn to draw?

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Perhaps her requirements were too great, Or her indulgence for human weakness too small, For her attempts to form a friendship had alwaysEnded in disappointment.

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

Man's envy is at its most intense where all are almost equal; his calls for redistribution are loudest when there is virtually nothing to redistribute.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence.

You must first spend some time getting your model to relax. Then you'll get a natural expression.

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.

The articulate, trained voice is more distracting than mere noise.