We learned not to meet anymore, We don't raise our eyes to one another, But we ourselves won't guarantee What could happen to us in an hour.
Do not let it look as if you reasoned too much. Painting must be impulsive to be worth while.
Anything under the sun is beautiful if you have the vision it is the seeing of the thing that makes it so.
By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
The mechanics of putting one spot of color next to another, that is the fundamental thing.
If you look into the past of the successful painter you will find square miles of canvas behind him.
Do studies, not pictures. Know when you are licked - start another. Be alive, stop when your interest is lost.
Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick. Although we all prefer to use only the good passport, sooner or later each of us is obliged, at least for a spell, to identify ourselves as citizens of that other place.
What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.
Farewell's a bitter word to say.
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.