The world, art, and self explain each other: each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

The most important thing in industry is the person who does the industry, which is the worker... Labor is the only source of wealth.

When truth is divided, errors multiply.

We should see the desire for neatness, the desire for sharp impressions, as a desire in art.

The most important thing for you to do is see that in hoping to be affected by other things as fully as possible, you become more yourself.

The universe is Why, How, and What, in any order, and all at once.

All beauty is a making one of opposites, and the making one of opposites is what we are going after in ourselves.

The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.

Art is a way of showing greater fairness to things than is customary.

The purpose of photography is to create an emotion about the world through what has been carefully seen and selected.

We all came from the same source and it's energy in form of light shining in every consciousness.

The only way to avoid failure is to sit in a corner and do nothing.

I don't believe there are devils enough in hell to pull a boy out of the arms of a godly mother.

You can't live in paradise—but you are living right here. Make this your paradise or make this your hell. The choice is entirely yours. Really.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I call myself a chameleon.

God doesn't give us crying, pooping children because he wants to advance our careers.

And so while dreams are the individual man's play with reality, the sculptor's art is (in a broader sense) the play with dreams.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

Black Consciousness therefore takes cognizance of the deliberateness of God's plan in creating Black people black.