The artist, a traveller on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being.

The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

Manner, as much as matter, constitutes eloquence.

The concealment of art by the actor is as great a mark of genius as it is in the painter.

Science and art are the handmaids of religion.

The feet of the Christian need to tread the narrow path that the Savior trod, keeping in step with Him.

We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.

Human beings do not wish to be modest; they want to be as expressive - that is, as immodest - as fear allows; fashion helps them solve that paradoxical problem.

Willem de Kooning paintings are a language to be learned. When they were first shown, they were ridiculed as being just drips and splatters and splashes. You had to learn how to read them.

Lend.” “Lend?” Raquel asked. “Yes, as in, lend me your self.” He shimmered into Raquel again. “Why not Borrow?” I asked. “Better yet, Steal?

My mother encouraged me to be artistic. It was written in a contract at an early age that I would be an artist.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

We know the candidate Barack Obama, what he was like - the anti-war government nig... America was a source for division around the world, that what we were doing was wrong.

War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.

To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just.