By my teaching I hope to inspire you to personal activity and to present your vision.

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.

Water is like a child, it always wants to be in motion.

In universities and intellectual circles, academics can guarantee themselves popularity - or, which is just as satisfying, unpopularity - by being opinionated rather than by being learned.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

We've been programmed to think meat is protein and you need meat. No, we are not cavemen. There are plenty other ways.

I like to deal with things I heard about, ... People are always getting their house broken into around the holidays. That's when the crime rate goes up.

I was in a two-person show [with Oliver Ralli] called the Midwesterners where we wrote all of our own stuff and we traveled the country with it. That's what eventually led me to L.A.

So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.

I've never been one to chase awards or anything like that, to be honest.

What will ye then that I shall do unto him whom ye call the King of the Jews?

The pain of severe depression is quite unimaginable to those who have not suffered it.