"Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."

"Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot."

"Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"

"Every artist was first an amateur."

"The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous."

"We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced of God?s existence think faith is impossible for them. Not so. People who doubt can have great faith because faith is something you do, not something you think. In fact, the greater your doubt the more heroic your faith."

"The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel."

"How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?"

"Observe Everything. / Communicate Well. / Draw, Draw, Draw."

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."