“The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.”

“My culture-deprived, aspirational mother dragged me once a month from our northern suburb - where the word art never came up - to the Art Institute of Chicago. I hated it.”

“Contrary to popular opinion, things don't go stale particularly fast in the art world.”

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

“Rumors sound of galleries asking artists for upsized art and more of it. I've heard of photographers asked to print larger to increase the wall power and salability of their work. Everything winds up set to maximum in order to feed the beast.”

“The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.”

“Art is a harmony parallel with nature.”

“Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.”

“Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.”