A common defect of modern art study is that too many students do not know why they draw.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

I wonder if people always choose what will make them unhappy.

A pretty face and a beautiful body blind a man more quickly than any poker through the eyes.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.

Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.

Doing Much Ado was such a special thing because I knew everybody involved. With people you hadn't worked with before, you would watch them on shows and want to work with them.

Those [old] days are gone... accept the reality and do it.

My stepfather used to run hotels all around the world.

The day-to-day life we lead has nothing to do with enlightenment. It is just around the corner, and we don't see it.

I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

I feel like I have become a living fossil in the fashion world. Without even noticing it, in my own collection I have moved away from the street style.