By getting as close to the true idea of religion, of spirituality as it is possible for us to get.. ...we would be in possession of the only tangible relationship tot the deity in things.

It is never difficult to see images – when the principle of the image is embedded in the soul.

My work has the abstraction underneath it all now & what I deliberately set out to do down here, for this is the perfect realistic abstraction in landscape.

A reaction, to be pleasant, must be simple.

The virtue of Yankee upbringing spiritually speaking is of more downright value to me than any past heritages.

(I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

I harp always on the 'idea' of life as I dwell perpetually on the existence of the moment.

I could never be French, I could never become German - I shall always remain American - the essence which is in me is American mysticism just as Davies declared it when he saw those first landscapes.

I don't want to escape via intellectual ruses – I want affirmations via passionate embraces & you can't have life unless you live it.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself".

nothing can block your light. what's for you will be yours even when shade is thrown

Nothing fills the world quite as poetry does. A poet need not dwell on the pagecount of his life.

Use what you know. Draw from it. It doesnt always mean plot or fact. It means capturing a truth from your experiencing it, expressing values you personally feel deep down in your core.

I try to train as much as I can, as much as my schedule allows it.

Away! Away! Tempt me no more insidious love.

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

I think what we've learned is that the terrorist threat is serious, but it shifts. You cannot make a single person the sole focus of your counterterrorism.

Nature does not steal time, it amplifies it.

Catholicism is a matter of the body and the senses as much as it is a matter of the mind, precisely because the Word became flesh.