Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Mankind is like ocean, we only see the things which comes up! If we wanna know someone better we need a deeper dive.

He may have stolen my heart or had he taken my soul? I couldn’t be sure but I refused to let him have my pride too.

I said you were beautiful. I slept in your bed!

Even in our perfection we are Broken.

The history of almost every civilization furnishes examples of geographical expansion coinciding with deterioration in quality.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

That's the same in college. It's the same in high school. Kids are getting bigger, stronger, faster, more into the weightlifting, more into nutrition, more into size.