Whenever I see a Frans Hals I feel like painting, but when I see a Rembrandt I feel like giving up!

The art of drawing is the art of omission.

Degas is a master of creating compositions that don't look composed.

Fantasizing about the future is not wrong until and unless you are not missing the beauty of the present!

Look how we have made our broken hearts soar.

Empathy is a creative act. It is the act of imagining ourselves not only in another's shoes, but perhaps inhabiting their very heart and soul.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

I have never believed that man's freedom consisted in doing what he wants, but rather in never doing what he does not want to do.

I believe it is wrong, in a country of such wealth and prosperity, to have 36 million Americans living in poverty.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

What comes will also go. What always is will alone remain.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.