Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.

In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.

Our entire being is nourished by color.

It is not the form that dictates the color, but the color that brings out the form.

A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist's world.

Colors must fit together as pieces in a puzzle or cogs in a wheel.

Painters must speak through paint, not through words.

Art is the expression of the artist´s overflowing soul.

Art is something absolute, something positive, which gives power just as food gives power. While creative science is a mental food, art is the satisfaction of the soul.

Love of justice is for most men only the courage to suffer injustice.

Some promises are lies we never meant to tell.

Will looked up in apparent relief when Charlotte and Tessa came in. "Will," Charlotte said, "You remember Miss Gray?" "My recollection of her," said Will, "is most vivid indeed.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

We could steal time, just for one day We can be Heroes, for ever and ever What d'you say?

As water and fire oppose one another when combined, so are self-justification and humility opposed to one another.

He lives in the halflights in secret places, free and alone, this mysterious little great being whom his mistress calls, My cat.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

For a moment, Percy actually remembered what it was like to be happy. He had an amazing girlfriend. They could have a future together.