To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.

In the great artist you see daring bound by discipline and discipline stretched by daring.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

When life takes the wind out of your sails, it is to test you at the oars.

On the sixth day, God created the artist, realizing no doubt that He had far from exhausted the uses of color.

You can bear your troubles or shrug them off. They're your shoulders.