Art appreciation, like love, cannot be done by proxy.

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.

We honour our existence through devotion. We do everything that brings us closer to our hearts

The problem with being clever, Serene thought with a sigh, is that everyone assumes you're always planning something.

No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.

Strip it all down to essentials and draw the hell out of what's left.

though the outside of human life changes much, the inside changes little, and the lesson-book we cannot graduate from is human experience.

The drum is the heart of music. The saxophone can play and then rest, as can all of them except the drums; the drummer keeps going - he can't afford to stop.

A lot of stuff I wear I've had since high school.

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece.

The quality of our questions determine the quality of our lives.

Everything is a piece of me, a moment of my life.