I've never been a fan of labels. I think its very easy to kind of look at somebody and just kind of throw a label on them 'They're crazy. '
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple.
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
Hang on the walls of your mind the memory of your successes. Take counsel of your strength, not your weakness. Think of the good jobs you have done. Think of the times when you rose above your average level of performance and carried out an idea or a dream or a desire for which you had deeply longed. Hang these pictures on the walls of your mind and look at them as you travel the roadway of life.
Industry in art is a necessity - not a virtue - and any evidence of the same, in the production, is a blemish, not a quality; a proof, not of achievement, but of absolutely insufficient work, for work alone will efface the footsteps of work.
People will forgive anything but beauty and talent. So I am doubly unpardonable.
To say to the painter that Nature is to be taken as she is, is to say to the player that he may sit on the piano.
People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars.
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by man, land animals and forests now abound where the anchor once sank into the oozy bottom.
Who is far from love is a bad state, and to be pitied. He passes his days in a delirious dream, far from God, deprived of light, and he lives in darkness. . . Whoever does not have the love of Christ is an enemy of Christ. He walks in darkness and is easily lead into any sin.
I'm not one of those who say this is the way. I'm not that opinionated. I can only say this is my way. Even the $1,000 scholarship that my son could have gotten from the state of Illinois to go to college, we didn't want. I'd rather get out and work and have my children know that their money comes from their parents and we have to work for it.