Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees but what he feels what he tells himself about what he has seen.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Action is the foundational key to all success.

Why do you try to understand art? Do you try to understand the song of a bird?

The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

If a child is roughly treated and not respected and not shown love, the child will have problems with self-esteem

Reading enables me to maintain a sense of something substantive– my ethical integrity, my intellectual integrity.

I wanted to peel myself off of me.

Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.

In a militia, the character of the laborer, artificer, or tradesman, predominates over that of the soldier: in a standing army, that of the soldier predominates over every other character.

He who kisses girl on hillside is not level

All you have to do is play one note. But it needs to be the right note.

You cannot have a testimony without a test. Will you pass the test or have the monies?

We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means.

One of the deepest habitual patterns that we have is to feel that now is not enough.