Artist Quote by Charles Webster Hawthorne

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence we should hate and destroy one another. There are possibilities enough for all who will…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand; but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

— Clarence Day

Science will never be able to reduce the value of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter and love,…

— Louis Orr

The central task of science is to arrive, stage by stage, at a clearer comprehension of nature, but this does not at all mean,…

— Lewis Thomas

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

It is so hard and long before a student comes to a realization that these [first] few large simple spots in right relations are…

— Charles Webster Hawthorne

If there is a conflict in your mind between what you know and what you are seeing, paint what you see because if you…

— Richard Schmid

Paint what you like and die happy

— Henry Miller

If your life is full, you will paint full pictures. If it is empty, your pictures will be empty too.

— Harvey Dunn

The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter…

— John Berger

I used to want to be a writer or a painter, although I couldn't paint very well.

— Jisoo