"I do not believe that ever any building was truly great, unless it had mighty masses, vigorous and deep, of shadow mingled with its surface."

“Women never really care to face the truth when their hearts are involved.”

“Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart.”

“Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.”

“It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.”

Source : Molly Ivins (2010). “Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?”, p.112, Vintage

“I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to.”

“My aim in painting has always been the most exact transcription possible of my most intimate impression of nature.”

Source : Edward Hopper, Hayward Gallery, Whitney Museum of American Art (1981). “Edward Hopper, 1882-1967: Hayward Gallery, London, 11 February to 29 March 1981 : a selection from the exhibition Edward Hopper, the art and the artist held at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York from 16 September 1980 to 25 January 1981”

“Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria.”

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.”