We must all teach ourselves to be fine, to be poets.

Realize the value of putting down your first impression quickly.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Paint with freedom. It gives you more mastery of the nature of paint.

Put variety in white.

Each day has its own individuality of color.

Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.

Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.

A sketch has charm because of its truth - not because it is unfinished.

By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.

Study continuously, developing yourself into a better person, more sensitive to things in nature. Spend years in getting ready.

Forever present, always knowing that you are the only one for me.

What matters in Politics is what men actually do - sincerity is no excuse for acting unpolitically, and insincerity may be channelled by politics into good results.

Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others.

There was no place at all for me in my father's military world.

I don't see that a single line can constitute a stanza, although it can constitute a whole poem.

I love long walks on the beach, big dicks, and fried chicken.

The left-leaning thinking that dominates the movie business follows a common liberal instinct to deny the spiritual dimension to every problem, thereby profoundly compounding the difficulties.

Being the gateway to a large city, St. Louis, I had felt from the very beginning that somehow this building should symbolize this sense of being a gateway.

Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development.

No one, though has to go to college to make or understand or enjoy art. Wonderful artists and critics - some of the best - have educated themselves.