real art is religion, a search for the beauty of God deep in all things.

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it.... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts.

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.

Do not try to do extraordinary things but do ordinary things with intensity.

As the woods are the same, the trees standing in their places, the rocks and the earth... they are always different too, as lights and shadows and seasons and moods pass through them.

Perfectly ordered disorder designed with a helter-skelter magnificence.

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.