Do not expect pictures to say the expected; some of the best will have surprises for you, which will, at first, shock you.

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.

Right now, it felt like there was nowhere for his thoughts to alight that wasn't rife with land mines of regret or anger or guilt.

Always live the adventure.

Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves.

I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.

Our incapacity to comprehend other cultures stems from our insistence on measuring things in our own terms.

Our ability to factory farm animals is coldly psychopathic.

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

If it's not good, it's not the end.

Naming can limit as well as empower.

Superpowers, don't always make you a superhero. - Duck