"We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature."

“Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.”

“I'm very comfortable in the storm.”

“Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government”

“The ability to face constructively the tension of opposing ideas and instead of choosing one at the expense of the other, generate a creative resolution of the tension in the form of a new idea that contains elements of the opposing ideas but is superior to each.”

Source : Roger L. Martin (2009). “The Opposable Mind: Winning Through Integrative Thinking”, p.27, Harvard Business Press

“There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people.”

Source : "Die Deutschen gepanzerten Truppen bis 1945". Book by Oskar Munzel, 1965.

“The Grim Reaper doesn't disappear... he catches up.”

“To me, watercolor is a Western medium, so when I feel like I am using a Western manner I will use English to sign my name.”

Source : "Conversation with Liu Dan". Interview with Jane DeBevoise, www.aaa-a.org. March 25, 2010.

“I've trained all my life. I've always been one who enjoys training so it's not something that I think I can just stop doing. It might not be as regular but I want to keep training.”