All real works of art look as though they were done in joy.

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.

It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.

POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Names are for those who do not know themselves." Makwi - from The Bow of Destiny

Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps

It's like, 'Sorry I passed you an STD but I really enjoy your quirky web presence.'

I actually prefer the silent black and white version of the Wizard Of Oz from the 20's.

I firmly believe artists should be paid for what they create.

I think that laziness in many ways is the human condition, and that's what has led us to this place where, as we've developed technology.

I'm definitely a crier. I get really emotional if someone's being rude or says something mean about me.

I'm ready to do something different.