Who knows when a trenchant line becomes a human face?

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

Revenge is a bad policy if you gain nothing out of it, but under the same circumstances, forgiveness is even a worse one.

-I am alergic to these flowers.-I know.

There's a lot of great people out here, I just appreciate it and hope everybody has had fun because I've enjoyed my ride.

A new beauty has been added to the splendor of the world - the beauty of speed.

This inhuman world has to become more humane. But how?

I am totally in the hands of the Lord.

If your only opportunity is to be equal then it is not opportunity.

The best practice is to follow the advice posted on every railroad crossing: Stop. Look. Listen.

Believe in everything you do. Believe in your mistakes and grow from them.

I believe that pain and suffering can either be a prison or a prism.