We cannot put off living until we are ready.
Knowledge of the means to express our emotion is essential- and is acquired only after a very long experience.
I have to keep working, not to arrive at finish, which arouses the admiration of fools. . . I must seek completion only for the pleasure of being truer and more knowing.
It's so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
With an apple I will astonish Paris.
For an Impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject, but to realize sensations.
See nature in terms of the cone, the cylinder, and the sphere.
Government! Three-fourths parasitic and the rest stupid fumbling - oh, Harshaw concluded that man, a social animal, could not avoid government, any more than an individual could escape bondage to his bowels. But simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it "good. " He wished that government would wander off and get lost! (96)
Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.
I don't enjoy "Dust in the Wind"as much. But I do enjoy "Song for America," "Carry on, Wayward Son," and many songs- Kansas is really a drummer's dream to play in. And I like 'em all.
Relationships are a constant negotiation and balance.