Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.

Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.

When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

The mother is the most precious possessions of the nation, so precious that society advances its highest well-being when it protects the functions of the mother.

Everything, everything in war is barbaric... But the worst barbarity of war is that it forces men collectively to commit acts against which individually they would revolt with their whole being.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is to me one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human.

Love requires peace, love will dream; it cannot live upon the remnants of our time and our personality.

The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.

A poet is an artist that paints pictures by mixing thought, imagination, and emotion with words.

You learn to cook so that you don't have to be a slave to recipes. You get what's in season and you know what to do with it.

People that say I'm really sensitive rarely are.

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest

Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.

Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

I think that we have opportunities all around us - sometimes we just don't recognize them.

It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.

I love doing logos. I've been a graphic artist all my life.

Lend your money and lose your friend.