Man needs spiritual expression and nourishing... even in the prehistoric era, people would scrawl pictures of bison on the walls of caves.

When you start a painting, it is somewhat outside you. At the conclusion, you seem to move inside the painting.

Art is a spiritual, immaterial respite from the hardships of life.

An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.

Man needs music, literature, and painting - all those oases of perfection that make up art - to compensate for the rudeness and materialism of life.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

The richness of an artist is the fusion of influences that have shaped his life and work.

I describe in a realistic form a nonrealistic Reality.

I often think about death and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.

I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.

Christ distributes courage through community. He dissipates doubt through fellowship. Max Lucado

Today whenever women gather together it is not necessarily nurturing. It is coalition building. And if you feel the strain, you may be doing some good work.

Some pieces in the King's Indian appear on a 'special price' list: the dark square bishops are at the top of that list.

The ability to suffer is a small matter - weak women and even slaves can acheive virtuosity in that.

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring.

You see a hockey player, you'd never know he's a professional athlete. But you put the skates on him, and he becomes a beast.

Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any.

The #lotus comes from the #murkiest #water.. but #grows into the #purest thing.

Let us be faithful and care for our own part, which is to do and suffer for Him, and lay Christ's part on Himself, and leave it there; duties are ours, events are the Lord's.

For me, women's ski wear has always been black and, again, not as feminine or sexy as I think it could look while still having the technology there.