Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.

Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.

Art is an experience, not an object.

Wherever art appears, life disappears.

Without ethical consciousness, a painter is only a decorator.

Painting is a medium in which the mind can actualize itself; it is a medium of thought. Thus painting, like music, tends to become its own content.

If one were to ask a painter what he felt about anything, his just response - though he seldom makes it - would be to paint it, and in painting, to find out.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

The main thing is not to be dead.

It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.

In the end I realize that whatever meaning that picture has is the accumulated meaning of ten thousand brushstrokes, each one being decided as it was painted.

You can disagree with another person's opinions. You can disagree with their doctrines. You can't disagree with their experience.

I'm growing as an actor and performer every week.

Nancy Reagan, when presented with kids with really painful disabilities and deformities, she was completely undaunted.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

My sentences tend to be very short and rather spare. I'm more your paragraph kind of gal.

Eventually, I want to be a creative producer that isn't in things. The acting is more of a secondary thing for me now.

I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

I always do the first line well, but I have trouble doing the others.

It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.

I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.