Art is but imitation of nature.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Christ is more of an artist than the artists; he works in the living spirit and the living flesh, he makes men instead of statues.

Admire as much as you can. Most people do not admire enough.

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world.

The thing has already taken form in my mind before I start it. The first attempts are absolutely unbearable. I say this because I want you to know that if you see something worthwhile in what I am doing, it is not by accident but because of real direction and purpose.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it. I think that I see something deeper, more infinite, more eternal than the ocean in the expression of the eyes of a little baby when it wakes in the morning and coos or laughs because it sees the sun shining on its cradle.