Chris Huhne is a remarkably successful and powerful minister
If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.
An artist painting a picture should have at his side a man with a club to hit him over the head when the picture is finished.
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in the mind. . . a continuous stream of observations from which to make selections later. Above all things get abroad, see the sunlight and everything that is to be seen.
I do not judge, I only chronicle.
A portrait is a painting with something wrong with the mouth.
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
I say to the Christians and to every missionary on the reservations, you're welcome to have a church here if you can support yourself. But if these churches can't support themselves, then take the hint and quit using our poverty for your direct mail solicitations.
I don't pay attention to how I feel about anything.
At times the whole sky was ringed in shooting points and puckers of light gathering and falling, pulsing, fading, rhythmical as breathing. All of a piece. As if the sky were a pattern of nerves and our thought and memories traveled across it. As if the sky were one gigantic memory for us all.
A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.