No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly.
The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.
You can look at a picture for a week and never think of it again. You can also look at the picture for a second and think of it all your life.
The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later.
A simple line painted with the brush can lead to freedom and happiness.
If you have any notion of where you are going, you will never get anywhere.
More important than a work of art itself is what it will sow. Art can die, a painting can disappear. What counts is the seed.
Maintaining an open mind is essential when exploring the unknown, but allowing one's brains to fall out in the process is inadvisable.
Absolutely. Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future. I questioned a lot about my relationship with your father. People make spontaneous decisions based off of their hearts all the time. There's so much more to relationships than just love.
Man, not the earth, makes civilization.
But 300 million Americans, their lending institutions, their government, their media, all believed that house prices were going to go up consistently. And that got billed into a $20 trillion residential home market. Lending was done based on it, and everybody did a lot of foolish things.