"Violent delights tend to have violent ends."

“You are not on this planet to produce anything with your body. You are on this planet to produce something with your soul. Your body is simply and merely the tool of your soul. Your mind is the power that makes the body go. So what you have here is a power tool, used in the creation of the soul's desire.”

“I live in a neighborhood that's really filled with sound - there's a lot of Jamaican auto body shops, and the guys next door play hip hop.”

“Reverence the gods, and help men. Short is life.”

“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.”

Source : Helen Frankenthaler, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (1980). “Helen Frankenthaler prints, 1961-1979”, HarperCollins

“Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say.”

“It is said to be a deterrent. I cannot agree....I do not now believe that any one of the hundreds of executions I carried out has in any way acted as a deterrent against future murder. Capital punishment, in my view, achieved nothing except revenge.”

“I will preach with my brush.”

Source : Dewey F. Mosby, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Darrel Sewell, Rae Alexander-Minter, Philadelphia Museum of Art (1991). “Henry Ossawa Tanner”

“LL's a laughing stock, cause I bit that ***** to the last stop. I watched you fall like Hitler fell, and now your down to a broken L.”