"I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it."

“What brings two people together anyway?”

“Perhaps this very instant is your time.”

Source : Louise Bogan (2005). “A poet's prose: selected writings of Louise Bogan : with the uncollected poems”, Swallow Press

“Education is learning more than it is being taught. It's the chemistry of curiosity exposed to information. In that sense all of life is potentially school. And even I can pass that.”

“The greatest thing an actor can experience is discovery. The greatest thing an artist can walk away with is to learn something about themselves and the world and this was one of those.”

“Why, what a temper you are in!”

“When the Lord starts out to make an oak tree, he takes a hundred years to do it in, but he can make a pumpkin in 90 days. More or less life is like that. We must choose whether we desire to become and oak tree or a pumpkin.”

“Im not satisfied with the progress of the work, but I am happy that the talks are going on. It might have a negative effect if the United States joins.”

“It is extraordinary to see how the discovery of one single free stroke of paint can fill you with such joy and amazement.”

Source : Michele Cassou, Stewart Cubley (1996). “Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous”, p.28, Penguin