True enough nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure yet I should be lying if I told you that having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline I fell peacefully asleep.

Painting will have to deal more fully and less obliquely with life and nature's phenomena before it can again become great.

The more intense the nature of a man the more readily will he find meditation and the more successfully will he practice it.

If you don't know how to die don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

Man is fully responsible for his nature and his choices.

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

For some reason the evolutionists have not come up with an evolution-based explanation for why human beings react so powerfully to music. But surely they will.

Hopefully people can see my music is tethered to my brain.

I'm not trying to clock scores in this lifetime it's just that things are better now than they were like five ten years ago. Music has gotten a lot better. There's a lot of people who are committed to - soulfully.