I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football.
The most irritating experience for an artist is to have his work criticized before it is finished.
It's a moment that I'm after, a fleeting moment, but not a frozen moment.
If it [talent] isn’t strong enough to take the gaff of real training, then it’s not worth much.
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery.
I don't really have studios. I wander around around people's attics, out in fields, in cellars, anyplace I find that invites me.
I can't work completely out of my imagination-I must put my foot in a bit of truth-and then I can fly free.
Obedience shows whether you are grateful.
He worked night and day. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. Even the eagle. Even the swan.
. . . There's a lot more to be gained from being grateful than you might think. Managing your outlook towards appreciation and thankfulness feeds the soul. It brings calm and contentment. It lifts your levels of happiness and hope. Gratitude will amplify your positive recollections about times past, and in turn sets the stage for optimism about the future.
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not stop where our eyes lose them, but push the same geometry and chemistry up into the invisible plane of social and rational life, so that, look where we will, in a boy's game, or in the strifes of races, a perfect reaction, a perpetual judgment keeps watch and ward.