Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money.

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.

Live, Princess, for me. I love You

Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.

Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient.

Be healthy and happy.

If he had to wish, what would he wish for, he asked himself. What was there to wish for... a wish asked for the unattainable. The impossible.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

Everything isn't subjective. Reality also matters. Truth matters. It is still a word with meaning.

I love knowing that people are connecting to my lyrics, my music and me.

Other people salted away money for their old age, but Nanny preferred to accumulate memories.

When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white men came, an Indian said simply "Ours.