"Virtue runs before the muse,and defies her..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is the essence of poetry to spring, like the rainbow daughter of Wonder, from the invisible, to abolish the past, and refuse all history.”

“Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.”

“In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man.”

“I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating the condition, promoting the virtue and advancing the happiness of man.”

“Moderation, the noblest gift of Heaven.”

“Chastity is a virtue with some, but with many it is almost a vice.”

“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.”

“If I can capture truth in its simplest form, beauty will follow like a sledgehammer.”

“I paint; I draw and paint - I've been doing that since I was in third grade, drawing realistically and then changing to abstract art. That was my first creative thing before guitar or comedy.”