If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

Management is nothing more than motivating other people.

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

When you feel abandoned by God yet continue to trust him in spite of your feelings, you worship him in the deepest way.

My aim is a continuous, sustained, uncontrived image, motivated by nothing but passion.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.