It is not by his mixing and choosing, but by the shapes of his colors, and the combination of those shapes, that we recognize the colorist. Color becomes significant only when it becomes form.

The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.

We have no other means of recognising a work of art than our feeling for it.

It is the mark of great art that its appeal is universal and eternal.

Art and religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstacy.

The starting-point for all systems of aesthetics must be the personal experience of a peculiar emotion. The objects that provoke this emotion we call works of art.

Comfort came in with the middle classes.

Detail is the heart of realism, and the fatty degeneration of art.

All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.

It would follow that 'significant form' was form behind which we catch a sense of ultimate reality.

I will try to account for the degree of my aesthetic emotion. That, I conceive, is the function of the critic.

Do your kids see your kindness or are you always telling them. "NO?

Since it has quietly began to snow, new distances have awakened within me.

I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.

The hardest thing in the world is for a warrior to let others be.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are.

I try to surf everyday or at least go for a walk on the beach if the waves are flat. The more I travel, the more I appreciate where I live and the ocean.

Everything is a consequence of Something. The element of coincidence doesn't exist. We only think it exists because we cannot keep up with all processes that happen around us.

Acknowledged differences may create mutual respect, but hazy misunderstandings bring forth nothing but prejudice and rejection.

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.