All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can; and not think about what is upon it. The real and essential meaning of "virtue… - John Ruskin

Now observe; if the artist does not understand the sacredness of the truth of Impression, and supposes that, once quitting hold of his first thought, he may by Philosophy compose something prettier than he saw and mightier than he felt, it is all over with him. Every such attempt at composition will be utterly abortive, and end in something that is neither true nor fanciful; something geographically useless, and intellectually absurd.

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

The greatest thing a human being ever does in this world is to see something... To see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.