What is painting but the act of embracing, by means of art, the surface of the pool?

Beauty is the adjustment of all parts proportionately so that one cannot add or subtract or change without impairing the harmony of the whole.

I certainly consider a great appreciation of painting to be the best indication of a most perfect mind.

A common error of ignorance is to maintain that what one does not know does not exist.

No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.

A man can do all things if he will.

We must always take from nature what we paint and always choose the most beautiful things.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.

The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.

We have seen the best minds of our generation destroyed by boredom at poetry readings.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

Do you have the talent?' is rarely the question. 'Do you have the guts to finish?' is the real question.

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind.

You are not anyone or anything in particular. You are awareness itself. You don't have a particular form. You contain everything or you are contained by all things.

I think that I do separate myself a fair amount. And I don't feel like I am representing women. That's up to however people interpret it once they sort of see it.

I think we need to take a look at the technology, but not depend on it for things that require humanity.

The war photographer's most fervent wish is for unemployment

They won't talk to you because I'm undercover.

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.