Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

There is nothing outside of us that is not at the same time in us, and as the external world has its colors the eye, too, has colors.

But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows how to form and master the material at his command.

I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather....In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or is dehumanized.

Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy.