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My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

 

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All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.

 

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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

 

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There is no such thing as inaccuracy in a photograph. All photographs are accurate. None of them is the truth.

 

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Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.



Rollo May:

 

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Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.

 

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Nothing is more the child of art than a garden.

 

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A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

 

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The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the

 

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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth.

 

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Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it "creative observation." Creative viewing.

 

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Laying out grounds may be considered a liberal art, in some sort like poetry and painting.

 

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing.

 

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Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

 

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If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning.

 

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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

 

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Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.

 

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To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.

 

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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

 

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man