The instant you know what the result will be, you are lost.

I always pet a dog with my left hand because if he bit me I'd still have my right hand to paint with.

I try to make concrete that which is abstract.

I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.

Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

I make a composition with a white and a black, and make adjustments when the white has become a paper and the black a shadow.

Be driven by your dreams.

It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn’t mean they deserve it.

Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.

It is imperative that Christians be like Jesus, by living freely within the culture as missionaries who are as faithful to the Father and His gospel as Jesus was in His own time and place.

Little girls and boys, barefooted, walked up and down between the endless rows of spindles, reaching thin little hands into the machinery to repair snapped threads

I never liked guns, I hate them, I always blink before they go off.

You dont know what you do, everytime you walk into the room-- I'm afraid to move.

I thought I'd definitely be a writer, whatever I did.

The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others.