We feed it [Resistance] with power by our fear of it. Master that fear and we conquer Resistance.

The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He apprentices himself to them.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to live and study... Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I'll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.

You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

The opposite of fear," Dienekes said, "is love.