When I ask for a water cress sandwich, I do not mean a loaf with a field in the middle of it.
The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
The activity of painting: A thrilling tussle between the artist's materials and his inspiration.
A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.
It is now an accepted fact that the expression of emotion through painting. . . is a source of deep psychological satisfaction. . . It is a system which can also in some measure, even compensate for the lack of emotional fulfilment in human relationships.
Sketching is the breath of art: it is the most refreshing of all the more impulsive forms of creative self-expression and, as such, it should be as free, and happy, as a song in the bath.
An intrinsic part of the whole delicious, exuberant fun, and joy of painting consists in simply not having to bother about making a mess, either of one's person, or of the surroundings in which one is at work.
Marriage has been defined by every legislature that has ever sat in the United States from every State, now 50 States, the same way, but now we have unelected judges altering and changing that fundamental institution.
A fitness instructor in Maine has been charged with running a prostitution business out of her Zumba dance studio. Authorities first got suspicious when they saw guys going to work out at a Zumba dance studio.
Man is brilliant at solving problems; but solving them only makes him the victim of his own childishness and laziness. It is this recognition that has made almost every major philosopher in history a pessimist.
I'm not really a career person; I'm a gardener, basically.