Now that this torch is lit, we do not have time to dilly dally around.
Nature is economical. She puts her lights and darks only where she needs them.
The artist is an interpreter of Nature. People learn to love Nature through pictures. To the artist, nothing is in vain; nothing beneath his notice. If he is great enough, he will exalt every subject which he treats.
Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!
Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only. . . One dark and one light place in every picture.
Strive for simplicity! Don't have the face a checkerboard of tints! Use such colors as nature uses, but not try to keep them distinct! Your work may be called monotonous, but one tone is better than many which do not harmonize.
Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
I certainly struggled when I was little and didn't have an easy time, so I try to put that stuff in my work.
In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.
I did not come all this way not to interfere
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be. '