"At the worst possible moment, the most painful, darkest moment when you can't take it anymore and you are afraid, that is when a feeling of peace and comfort will come over you, and it's like nothing you've ever felt."

“People tend to believe that to be modern you have to disengage from your heritage, but it's not true.”

“Rick Bass is one of a dwindling handful of American fiction writers still celebrating the importance of place, the natural world, and the struggle of a few brave souls to live and work respectfully in what's left of our western wilderness...The Lives of Rocks is his most lyrical and powerful book to date...a masterwork.”

“Men, who are rogues individually, are in the mass very honorable people.”

“Maybe the given person, cup, or landscape is lost before one gets to painting. A figure exerts a continuing and unspecified influence on a painting as the canvas develops. The represented forms are loaded with psychological feeling. It can't ever just be painting.”

“Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.”

“It's cute how I used to think this 'barely holding it together' feeling was temporary.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 17, 2015

“There are two ways for a painter: the broad and easy one or the narrow and hard one.”

Source : Mary Cassatt, Adelyn Dohme Breeskin (1966). “The Paintings of Mary Cassatt: A Benefit Exhibition for the Development of the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., February 1 Through 26, 1966”

“I look around for the friends I used to turn to pull me through. Looking into their eyes, I see them running, too.”