I believe we have a higher responsibility to each other.
I swear... to hold my teacher in this art equal to my own parents; to make him partner in my livelihood; when he is in need of money to share mine with him; to consider his family as my own brothers and to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture.
My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken.
For, truly speaking, whoever provokes me to a good act or thought has given me a pledge of his fidelity to virtue,--he has come under the bonds to adhere to that cause to which we are jointly attached.
Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer.
I think that my strong determination for justice comes from the very strong, dynamic personality of my father ... I have rarely ever met a person more fearless and courageous than my father ... The thing that I admire most about my dad is his genuine Christian character. He is a man of real integrity, deeply committed to moral and ethical principles. He is conscientious in all of his undertakings ... If I had a problem I could always call Daddy.
My responsibility is to truth and beauty.
I believe the artist has an obligation to society.
He who is as faithful to his principles as he is to himself is the true partisan.
