Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

One never paints violently enough.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

Was it possible to be homesick for a soul?

If they ever envision Goodness as a thing that exists outside them, some real thing they’ve been called to participate in by their actions, well then, we’re headed right back toward The Virtues.

Something I've really enjoyed learning more about is course design.

If there is no absolute moral standard, then one cannot say in a final sense that anything is right or wrong.

The noble soul reveres itself

I mean, like, rock n' roll was always about spirit and fun.

We fail, not because of big problems, but because of small purposes.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

The game we are playing her is closest to the old game of 'Christians and lions.'

History distinguishes what is accidental and transitory in human nature from what is essential and immutable.