A good drawing has immense vitality because it is explanatory. In a good drawing even its faults have become virtues.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

I require three things in a man: he must be handsome, ruthless, and stupid.

Government scientists are commonly as corrupt as the corporate government that employs them.

I can't take another day of this.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

The greatest architect and the one most needed is hope.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts.

Gratitude lifts our eyes off the things we lack so we might see the blessings we possess.

Enthusiasm is the way you trigger other people's emotions so they instinctively help and support you.

Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.