Only an individual can imagine, invent, or create. The whole audience of art is an audience of individuals.

An ametuer is an artist who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him to paint.

Of course I realize that photography is not the technical facility as much as it is the eye, and this decision that one makes for the moment at which you are going to snap, you know.

If one has set for himself the position that his painting shall not misconstrue his personal mode of thinking, then he must be rather alert to just what he does think.

The artist is likely to be looked upon with some uneasiness by the more conservative members of society.

I love chaos.... It's the poetic element in a dull and ordered world.

Art almost always has its ingredient of impudence, its flouting of established authority, so that it may substitute its own authority and its own enlightenment.

It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout.

The natural reaction of the artist will be strongly towards bringing man back into focus as the center of importance.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter. To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material which surrounds them.

To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.

There are few things so tender as a man's dignity.

You pray in your distress and in your need would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance.

To discover new continents, you must be willing to lose sight of the shore.

Computers aren’t magic; teachers are.

When children are ready to talk, that is the time for parents to listen, regardless of the hour.

I'm going to come out and tell it like it is.

And so Yoshimi heard the dry pop one more time. Her forehead felt as if it were being crushed by a car. That was all.

Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

My love for animals started before I can remember.

When I was born I brought no joy, my father said he wanted a boy!