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

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

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.

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.

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

I'm proud of myself, people love me and respect me, and I like me. I like who I am.

I'm not slick. I'm not polished. I think my strength is in reacting.

Now that Ronald Reagan's place in history is secure, liberals are trying to remake him. A pernicious myth is that Reagan and Tip O'Neill were great friends.

Men don't like nobility in woman. Not any men. I suppose it is because the men like to have the copyrights on nobility -- if there is going to be anything like that in a relationship.

An 'I' without a body is a possibility. But a body without an 'I' is utterly impossible.

Change is inscribed in noise faster than it transforms society.

A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.

If you're on the other side from me, you're not simply wrong or ill-informed or mistaken. We don't share the same country, the same values. You may not be the same kind of an American I am.

Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom.