One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
I'm continuing to work hard, not without periods of discouragement, but my strength comes back again.
My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.
I know that to paint the sea really well, you need to look at it every hour of every day in the same place so that you can understand its way in that particular spot; and that is why I am working on the same motifs over and over again, four or six times even.
I had so much fire in me and so many plans.
Lots of people will protest that it's quite unreal and that I'm out of my mind, but that's just too bad
These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.
My stepfather gave me a Kodak camera when I was 17 years old. I started working at a local photo store in Le Havre, France, taking passport pictures and photographing weddings.
I got most of my style from people around me who I knew personally.
We were born in a Jewish world, as part of a Jewish faith tradition. We had to translate ourselves into the neo-Platonic thinking Greek world; that took us about 400 years. Then, finally a man named Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, recast Christianity in terms of neo-Platonic thought.
I must acknowledge God. It says so in the Constitution of Alabama. It says so in the First Amendment of the Constitution.