Realism is in the work when idealism is in the soul, and it is only through idealism that we resume contact with reality.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

There is no greater joy than that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation.

In laughter we always find an unavowed intention to humiliate and consequently to correct our neighbour.

We are free when our actions emanate from our total personality, when they express it, when they resemble it in the indefinable way a work of art sometimes does the artist.

If reality impacted directly on our senses and our consciousness, if we could have direct communication between the material world and ourselves, art would be unnecessary.

Intuition is a method of feeling one's way intellectually into the inner heart of a thing to locate what is unique and inexpressible in it.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

The motive power of democracy is love

All this and Heaven too!

There is nothing more powerful than a new idea in the hands of a social entrepreneur

George Burns was the father I never had

News is what a chap who doesn't care much about anything wants to read.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

How we treat food is how we treat ourselves. Eating and buying organic means we're committed to a healthier world overall. It's good karma.

Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth.

Don't ever eat your bread without remembering the hardworking peasants!

Know that to begin is often better than to think.

But where there is no art show, I would still be painting.