One always talks of surrendering to nature. There is also such a thing as surrendering to the picture.

Draw your pleasure, paint your pleasure, and express your pleasure strongly.

I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn, and one in which to practice his art.

You cannot possibly invent painting all by yourself.

The precision of naming takes away from the uniqueness of seeing.

Drawing is feeling. Color is an act of reason.

Painting has to get back to its original goal, examining the inner lives of human beings.

What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

It's not a matter of painting life, it's a matter of giving life to painting.

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

Color does not add a pleasant quality to design - it reinforces it.

Nature is never so admired as when she is understood.

Speaking and listening are a form of psychic breathing.

They say that people teach what they need to learn. By adopting the role of happiness teacher, if only for myself, I was trying to find the method to conquer my particular faults and limitations.

Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone. It can for children - for anyone. It still does for me.

It’s unwise to pay too much, but it’s worse to pay too little.

We tend to think being hard on ourselves will make us strong. But it is cherishing ourselves that gives us strength

Because you do not believe?" "Oh, no," said Attolia bitterly. "Because I believe and do not choose to worship.

Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.

I will admit he is unusual, but that is perhaps the closest I could come to complimenting him.

I wish to call on you to join hands in the building of a world in which less people will be forced to flee, and in which refugees are protected until they can safely return home one day.