Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

Your value is based on how much and how deeply you can love others without any expectations of a return.

Enlighten the people, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

I have a particular style of writing and my voice sounds a particular way, which lends itself to a certain style.

Not one death but many, not accumulation but change, the feed-back proves, the feed-back is the law

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

I have more government than I want, more government than I need, more government than I can afford.

Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum.

I think it's one of those things about live performance - anything goes, anything can happen, and you have to just be ready and able to roll with the punches.

An architect doesn't go off with a shovel and dig his foundation and lay every brick. He's still an artist.

I think a brain can be made "more thinking" or made "more emotional." At what point does this become abnormal? Autism in its milder variants, I think, is part of normal human variation.