To be original one needs to learn the ideas of other painters in order to be different from them.

The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.

Learning the art of painting is not an easy task. It takes a great deal of intelligence, keen analysis, study and practice.

The pleasure derived from viewing the achievements of others, coupled with a true appreciation of nature, sharpens the desire to express pictorially.

Art comes into being in that abstract interval between a thought and reality, and no one - not even the artist who created it - can remeasure the influences that caused it.

Departure from the literal aspect, rather than mechanical exactness, is the code of the true artist. However, departures are the result of studied intent rather than inability.

The artist should always be the student.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

If I'm on a boat I will wave to every breathing thing I pass. If I'm not on a boat I try to avoid every breathing thing I pass.

The same sun which gilds all nature, and exhilarates the whole creation, does not shine upon disappointed ambition.

I'm not an impulse shopper. I will wait three days after I see something. Am I still thinking about it? Then I'll get it.

Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern.

Holy Purity is granted by God when it is asked for with humility.

To know another's heart, you must first know your own.

Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!

He who has realized the Self in the Heart has transcended the dualities and is never perplexed.