There has never been a boy painter, nor can there be. The art requires a long apprenticeship, being mechanical, as well as intellectual.

I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.

It will be difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the key note, the standard of scale, and the chief organ of sentiment.

It is the soul that sees; the outward eyes Present the object, but the Mind descries. We see nothing till we truly understand it.

The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

We see nothing till we truly understand it.

When I sit down to make a sketch from nature, the first thing I try to do is to forget that I have ever seen a picture.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Jesus was a man for simple people. He didn't make his messages incredibly complex. If you were a person that had the eyes to see and the ears to hear... then his message was easily understood.

Let me listen to me and not to them.

I don't think quantity time is as special as quality time with your family.

We think it is complicated to change the world. Change comes little by little. Nothing worthwhile can happen in one generation.

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro.

I always said I wanted to be the best at what I could do. I feel like I can improve.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

Like Ivan [Reitman] has said, there's a lot that a life encompasses.

What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on.

Violence is like money in the bank; it's only helpful if you don't have to use it.