Count on big lines to express your ideas.

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.

a politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money.

Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.

I hope that I have given happiness to others. I hope I have given children to the world, and that I have made some kind of a mark for myself here.

My whole goal was to be able to work in television and film and maintain a normal life, never be in a tabloid.

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

On the whole, more men had perhaps escaped into the war than from it.

You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.