The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.

The seasons change and you change, but the Lord abides evermore the same, and the streams of His love are as deep, as broad and as full as ever.

Prayer is the opening of the soul to God so that he can speak to us.

You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

The World to Bacon does not only owe it's present knowledge, but its future too.

I love dogs, but dogs, you have to be in the country with dogs. I cannot walk a dog on the street.

I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

YouTube has proven it can flourish in a model where there is more autonomy, and in that way I think it is an example and a potential model for other areas of the business.