Never lose the first impression which has moved you.

Be guided by feelings alone. Abandon yourself to your first impression. If you really have been touched, you will convey to others the sincerity of your emotion.

I work on all parts of my painting at once, improving it very gently until I find that the effect is complete.

Don't imitate, don't follow the others, or else you will lag behind them.

Art is nature as seen through a temperament.

I always entreat the good Lord to give me my childhood back, that is to say, to grant that I may see nature and render it like a child, without prejudice.

...Art itself may be defined as a single minded attempt to render the highest kind of justice to the visible universe, by bringing to light the truth, manifold and one, underlying its every aspect.

The most important things in a painting are Form and Value. Color comes last - like a friend you welcome.

The first things to study are form and values. For me, these are the things that are the basics of what is serious in art.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error...

I like to prowl ordinary places.I feel sorry for us all or glad for us allcaught alive togetherand awkward in that way.there's nothing better than the jokeof usthe seriousness of usthe dullness of us

A true friend lets you know that the door is always open, even when it’s closed.

The thing about real life is, when you do something stupid, it normally costs you.

But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

God's love for others does not stop at the border; neither should ours.

I am insubordinate by nature. I can't help it.

The million little things that drop into your hands, The small opportunities each day brings, He leaves us free to use or abuse, And goes unchanging along His silent way

Reject rejection! If someone says no, just say NEXT

Constantly contemplate the whole of time and the whole of substance, and consider that all individual things as to substance are a grain of a fig, and as to time the turning of a gimlet .

It's not the notes you play, it's the notes you don't play.