After all, the goal is not making art. It is living a life. Those who live their lives will leave the stuff that is really art.

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.

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

The power that makes grass grow, fruit ripen, and guides the bird in flight is in us all.

Your enthusiasm becomes their enthusiasm; your lukewarm presentation becomes their lukewarm interest in what you're offering.

During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of reduced spending in exchange for a $1 trillion dollar tax increase.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

Joy is the highest expression of love.

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.

It is always difficult, even with the best will in the world, to look back a long way and see anything resembling the truth.

Life is too short to leave your walls bare or colorless. Unless you like bare and colorless then it is fine.