The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.

After a few thousand watercolors you will find that you have fallen in love with paper and paint.

Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.

Texture is most evident where dark meets light on the turning edge and at the outer edge. Experience has taught us to assume that the areas in between have similar features.

We see light, not dark. But it is in the dark that we feel goblins and ghosts.

Tension is anticipation and uncertainty. Every art has to have it.

In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

Emotion doesn't have to be happiness.

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the eternal student.

The painting is usually finished before you are.

Be stern in the council-chamber, [Show no weakness, and insist on your plans being ratified by the sovereign.] so that you may control the situation.

Writing is like exercise. You have to work at it to see results.

With courage and character, American soldiers continue to put themselves on the line to defend our freedom, and so many have paid the ultimate sacrifice.

If you don't value what you have, you're sure to lose it.

I knew nothing about film at all. I suppose the biggest surprise is all these things. In the theatre we sort of do, I might do two or three key interviews and that would be it.

The Bible in the memory is better than the Bible in the book case.

During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about WWI.

For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.

What is it about the component of fire? People have written about it. People have wondered about it.

Repression breeds hate; hate menaces stable government.