Pastoral Resources

My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression, come from what source it may.

Every artist has to grow, and has to challenge themselves with a new form of expression.

If your faith is opposed to experience, to human learning and investigation, it is not worth the breath used in giving it expression.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?

Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.

An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.

It was this society and culture that among other things - including economic opportunities here and repression in Europe - attracted subsequent generations of immigrants to this country.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Expression, to a great extent, is a matter of terms, and terms are anyone's. The meaning of 'God' may have a billion interpretations if there be that many souls in the world.

The savage repression of blacks, which can be estimated by reading the obituary columns of the nation's dailies, Fred Hampton, etc., has not failed to register on the black inmates.

The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation.

When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.

The poet's expression of joy conceals his despair at not having found the reality of joy.