The aim of the painting is that the eye should find out what it likes.

I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.

There seemed to be endless obstacles - it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason.

Perhaps if one really knew when one was happy one would know the things that were necessary in one's life.

Colour is, on the evidence of language alone, very bound up with the feelings.

I came to the conclusion then that "continual mindfulness". . . must mean, not a sergeantmajor-like drilling of thoughts, but a continual readiness to accept whatever came.

I want to draw and study a few things closely by feeling, not thinking.

Love is not getting, but giving. It is sacrifice. And sacrifice is glorious!

Sometimes I find that in my happy moments I could not believe that I had ever been miserable.

A leader must stand up for his team even when he has to stand alone.

Emma was doing something nice for Simon? Hell must be enjoying the snow day.

The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.

I get accused all the time of having a bigmouth. But if you ask me, guys gossip way more than girls do.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one.

Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

To drop into being means to recognize your interconnectedness with all life, and with being itself. Your very nature is being part of larger and larger spheres of wholeness.

The Old West is not a certain place in a certain time, it's a state of mind. It's whatever you want it to be.

Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it.