The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

The artist should always be the student.

We all know that Hurry is the main cause of Worry. Yet we Hurry and Worry and miss the most beautiful experience called Life.

Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and reinforce each other.

You have to let the balloon go if you want to see it fly.

It's funny because it's funny.

I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop

Alliances are part of our destiny as a nation, part of our future as a nation and this is what guides me in my policy, what guides my government as a whole.

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

It doesn't make sense for me to be a lawyer in a place where there is no law.

I think what's really happening is that a dialogue opens up between the ego and these larger, more integrated parts of the psyche that are normally hidden from view.

Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience.