Motherly love - putting the care of children before every other consideration - is the ultimate intelligence of nature.
The character, position and weight of an object are in the edge.
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.
Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.
Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.
When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain.
Ave Dolce Vita, Rex Regum! Hail Sweet Life, King of Kings! We love you and we believe in you!
Nothing is more unaccountable than the spell that often lurks in a spoken word. A thought may be present to the mind, and two minds conscious of the same thought, but as long as it remains unspoken their familiar talk flows quietly over the hidden idea.
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle.