Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.

Art, if it is successful in the task of questioning reality, if it is good painting and not merely a performance of dexterity, will be an affirmation of God.

I believe when you bring, say, a plant into a room, everything in that room changes in relation to it. This tension - tension is the only word for it - can be painted.

The development that produces great art is a moral and not an aesthetic development.

All art is probably erotic in its ultimate character, but painting more than anything else is a purely nervous erotic activity.

The painter celebrates life where he finds it. His morality is the morality of enjoyment, of the continuous development of his own taste without shame or fear. It is a sort of heroism.

A sign of a lover of wisdom is his delight in not running his mouth about things he doesn't know.

The living used to wonder what happened after death. She said that whole religions were born and evolved around this one simple uncertainty.

It's not like I'm out eating McDonald's and Del Taco every night. I eat good: my mom fixes dinner every single night - baked chicken, fish - she cooks a great meal every single night.

September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

They call him Aslan in That Place," said Eustace. "What a curious name!" "Not half so curious as himself," said Eustace solemnly.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

There ought t'be some way t'eat celery so it wouldn't sound like you wuz steppin' on a basket.

I dont know why everybody is giving Prince Harry a hard time. Hes like every other red-blooded American man - he wants to get drunk and go out with hookers.

God, through Jesus Christ, is the victory, and the renewed earth will reflect that glory.

If we are to experience true worship, our love for God has to supersede our love of anyone and anything else.