A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.

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.

Rules and school are tools for fools! I don't give two mules for rules.

Experience alone isn’t a good enough teacher – evaluated experience is.

Respect flows two ways and can mean as much to the giver as to the one receiving.

My whole life was about her, what if her whole life wasn’t all about me?

Once I am in the square circle, I am in my home.

You may not have any extra talent, but maybe you are just paying more attention to what you are doing.

Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you.

Hate radio, hate speech, hate groups, hate crimes really don't fit in, in the America that we know today.

Watching Life on Mars was quite frightening for me because dipping in and out of reality was quite like myself

He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world.