A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

If one considered life as a simple loan, one would perhaps be less exacting. We possess actually nothing; everything goes through us.

Everyone knows that yellow, orange, and red suggest ideas of joy and plenty. I can paint you the skin of Venus with mud, provided you let me surround it as I will.

A picture is nothing but a bridge between the soul of the artist and that of the spectator.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

Talent does whatever it wants to do. Genius does only what it can.

One never paints violently enough.

Seeing artistically does not happen automatically. We must constantly develop our powers of observation.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

The first step of grace to seek knowledge begins with the reading of the Holy Scripture.

Your silence will not protect you.

I just love the sheer mess of New York.

Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.

I was a hired gun, more or less.

Music is enough of an expression that it doesn't really matter what the words are or what language it's in.

To succeed, it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.