If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

~ Not every poem is meant for oral stimulation, some are better devoured mentally.

Security is not the absence of danger but the presence of God no matter what the danger.

Your intelligence doesn't override your desire to destroy yourself.

Man's mind is so formed that it is far more susceptible to falsehood than to truth.

The glamour of twentieth-century air travel helped to persuade once-fearful travelers to take to the skies and encouraged parochial Americans to go out and see the world.

History is nothing except monsters or victims. Or witnesses.

I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies

To express what is the most moral, healthful and beautiful in art this is the mission of the dancer, and to this I dedicate my life.

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves.