My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.
Faith builds the bridge from this old world to the new.
Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle for where we're going. There's something ahead worth fighting for.
Listen to your own voice. Don't listen to someone else's. To me the way to live is to always move forward - to keep searching for whatever it is that interests you.
There's more to a picture than meets the eye.
One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.
For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.
Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.
After all, is our idea of God anything more than personified incomprehensibility?
It's a good giggle to look back at yourself in your 20s. You thought you were so fierce and fabulous, and it's just embarrassing.
He that believes all misseth; he that believes nothing, hits not.