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.

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

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.

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

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.

Time to start getting more sleep. This beautiful physique needs royal treatment.

Each child is a unique person, so raise your child taking this fact intoconsideration.

They courted the face on the screen, the face of translucence, the face of wax on which men found it possible to imprint the image of their fantasy.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point, I may feel the need to run for office again.

I think in times of bizarre strangeness, what you can and should do is spend time with your family eating lunch or dinner. And if you can do that, you will restore us to the peace.

To me a lot of electronic music out there is too serious. I'm a bit fed up with DJs who take themselves too seriously and don't smile.

People don't need to be managed, they need to be unleashed.

I don't know what will happen 100 years from now.

I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.