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"A picture must possess a real power to generate light and for a long time now I've been conscious of expressing myself through light or rather in light."

"I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have the light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me."

"Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence."

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand."

"Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science."

"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise."

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

"Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight."

"It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."

"The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."

"The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."

"Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!"

"Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend."

"It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition."

"The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."

"The choirs left the main tune and soared two octaves past heaven in a descant to rattle the bones and surge the heart."

"A sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things, a poet in words, a musician by sounds."

"It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work."

"Faith is spiritualized imagination."

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith."

"A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war."

"I outlived the bastards."

"The limit is about 300 words. Kipling's "Recessional" really did something to England when it was published. It helped them through a bad time. Let me know if you find any great poems lying around."

"What this country needs is a great poem. John Brown's Body was a step in the right direction. I've read it once, and I'm reading it again. But it's too long to do what I mean. You can't thrill people in 300 pages."

"No greater nor more affectionate honor can be conferred on an American than to have a public school named after him."

"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."

"I'm the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him."

"Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die."

"Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body - the producers and consumers themselves."