There's lots of fun in this world, after all. And if there isn't, there is in the next. And we're going there, sure.

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

Where questions of religion are concerned, people are guilty of every possible sort of dishonesty and intellectual misdemeanor.

As the season changes, we learn to adapt.

My best advice is never to address any woman as Madam unless she holds a high position in government or you happen to find yourself in a brothel speaking to its owner.

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?

You cannot change the outer event, so you must change the inner experience.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!

I think the way we show love for God is by loving each other, by extending the love that we are.