Art after all is but an extension of language to the expression of sensations too subtle for words.

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 know now, just quite howMy life and love might still go onIn your heart, in your mindI'll stay with you for all of time.

Never let your emotions get so high that they flood your common sense.

Ya know, if you treat every comic the way you treated me tonight, you would never see a bad show.

God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.

Just because you can do something, it doesn't mean you need to - restraint is something I admire. At the end of the day, it is still a battle between good vs. crap.

Your dreams can be realities. They are the stuff that leads us through life toward great happiness.

From the age of four or five. I went to see a lot of Westerns then. But it was silent movies and I loved everything that happened then.

No more winter at all. Finch, you brought me spring.

You can't just play the same thing, over and over again.

No one in Washington realizes you can't borrow money endlessly.