I can rise above the humility of my failure with an intense desire to search deeper and a blind faith that some day my sight may pierce through the veils that hide. I know God's face is there if I keep my gaze steady enough.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

The foolish square calves pretend to be frightened of our train. Bluffers! Haven't they seen it every day since they were born? It's just an excuse to shake the joy out of their heels.

You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Go out there into the glory of the woods. See God in every particle of them expressing glory and strength and power, tenderness and protection. Know that they are God expressing God made manifest.

The spirit must be felt so intensely that it has power to call others in passing, for it must pass, not stop in the pictures.