Saying and doing are two things.
Drawing is the necessary beginning of everything [in Art], and not having it, one has nothing.
As long as art lives never shall I accept that men are truly dead.
Art owes its origin to Nature herself. . . this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it.
Inspiration demands the active cooperation of the intellect joined with enthusiasm, and it is under such conditions that marvelous conceptions, with all that is excellent and divine, come into being.
Men of genius sometimes accomplish most when they work the least, for they are thinking out inventions and forming in their minds the perfect idea that they subsequently express with their hands.
I wish to be of service to the artists of our own day, by showing them how a small beginning leads to the highest elevation, and how from so noble a situation it is possible to fall to utmost ruin, and consequently, how these arts resemble nature as shown in our human bodies.
Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
Faith is homesickness. Faith is a lump in the throat. Faith is less a position on than a movement toward, less a sure thing than a hunch. Faith is waiting.
Don't fake it till you make it. Be real, be transparent, be authentic and be yourself.
I'm glad I didn't know certain things earlier, because then it wouldn't be any fun.