We must have design in a picture even at the expense of truth. You are using nature for your artistic needs.

A picture is a work of art, not because it is 'modern,' nor because it is 'ancient,' but because it is a sincere expression of human feeling.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Reserve is strength; overstatement is weakness. No one cares to hear the singer's topmost notes when the voice is 'nigh onto breaking.

Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.

In the anxiety to get beautiful colour harmony do not exhaust all combinations on one canvas.

Clouds are fascinating to paint because they are the only element in a landscape that possesses free movement.

The great paintings are the ones with the most subtle value relationships. The closer you could bring your values and still distinguish between them, the stronger you were as a painter.

Good colour really means good taste; and 'powerful' colour means a reserve, to give a climax its full force, and not 'red, white, and blue all over.

If you're going to paint from photos, make sure you've painted for at least ten years.

We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art.

As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of

You do not need any more strength. You need only to realize how strong you already are.

For people to link my music to their lives, it's incredible, there's no other feeling like it.

The true measure of our character is how we treat the poor, the disfavored, the accused, the incarcerated, and the condemned.

I think this, if Hillary Clinton treats me with respect, I will treat her with respect.

When you create more small businesses, you create small entrepreneurship. Out of that comes self-determination and employment.

Some audiences might find homosexuality an uncomfortable subject matter, and a character who is a Japanese collaborator is always uncomfortable.

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to intelligent villains.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.