Develop your visual memory. Draw everything you have drawn from the model from memory as well.

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.

I dreamt, I woke, I grafted, I failed, I persisted, I conquered.

Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.

Man is what he believes.

My acting teacher used to say that people reveal themselves in their opposites.

A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.

I don't want to die without knowing who I am.

You soon learn there’s no elegance or dignity in death if you spend time in the castle kitchens. You learn how ugly it is, and how good it tastes.

And even though we both fly Give each other space and not the evil eye

Words are finite expressions of the infinite mind.

In the U.S., you have to be a deviant or die of boredom.