Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.
. . . some kind of clean, pure feeling does live within us, existing apart from all our convictions.
Satiety depends not at all on how much we eat, but on how we eat. It's the same with happiness, the very same. . . happiness doesn't depend on how many external blessings we have snatched from life. It depends only on our attitude toward them. There's a saying about it in the Taoist ethic: 'Whoever is capable of contentment will always be satisfied.
The price of cowardice will only be evil. We shall reap courage and victory only when we dare to make sacrifices.
The less you speak, the more you will hear.
A work of art contains its verification in itself: artificial, strained concepts do not withstand the test of being turned into images; they fall to pieces, turn out to be sickly and pale, convince no one. Works which draw on truth and present it to us in live and concentrated form grip us, compellingly involve us, and no one ever, not even ages hence, will come forth to refute them.
Man has set for himself the goal of conquering the world but in the processes loses his soul.
I think everybody at some point - especially if they've been working their whole lives - should take time out and think about what they've done.
Encaustic gives markmaking a dimension. . . additivesubtractive.
I basically had the same body when I was 14 and that was weird. But I think I had really good parents. I got really lucky.
No matter where I am, I am always loving you.