If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.
Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship.
He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.
An artist who lacks the power of self-criticism accomplishes but little. It is good if your work stands higher than your own opinion of it; bad if it is on the same level. But it is a great disaster if your work stands lower than your judgment of it.
It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
Tears come from the heart and not from the brain
Lord, I shall see you no more with the eyes of the flesh.
You can't play bass in a vacuum.
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand as examples of the sort of wholesale transformation of species that Darwin envisioned as the natural product of the evolutionary process. Few saw any reason to demur - though it is a startling fact that. . . most species remain recognizably themselves, virtually unchanged throughout their occurrence in geological sediments of various ages.
I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.