To me, art begets art. Painting feeds the eye just as poetry feeds the ear, which is to say that both feed the soul.

Look long enough, out or in, and you’ll be glad you are who you are.

If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.

What the world calls failure, I call learning.

He and I had a bridge that no one else traveled that made us artistic lovers, passionate without a touch of the flesh. He made me thrive, and valuing that, I could do nothing that would endanger it.

Everybody works . . . . That's what life is. Work and a little play and a lot of prayer.

Think hard before you begin, then enter the work.

Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life..."It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.

No one but another painter could know the delicacy required to balance the complexities, to keep reality at bay in order to remain in the innermost center of his work.

If you feel joy when you do something unselfish for him, and would just as soon do it in secret as openly, then that rings of the true metal

I absorbed as many Impressionist paintings as I could, in Parisian museums and in many museums in the United States and in books, looking for clues to architecture, clothing, settings.

I don't particularly enjoy watching films in 3D because I think that a well-shot and well-projected film has a very three-dimensional quality to it, so I'm somewhat sceptical of the technology.

I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.

The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.

Lady Middleton ... exerted herself to ask Mr. Palmer if there was any news in the paper. 'No, none at all,' he replied, and read on.

No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see.

Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in.

I lust love to play football.

Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where strength is superabundant and where it is deficient.

If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.

Fake friends are around when they think you're cool. True friends are around even when they think you're fool.