Don't be stingy with your paint, it isn't worth it.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

There is a wellspring of life within you where you can go for cleansing and transformation.

(T)here are only two things that are true 100 out of 100 times and that is that you live and also that you die and every other thing is not true or false it is a mix. It is both. It is none.

That's what my mother doesn't understand about my lipstick and dark clothes. I don't wear tattoos to freak her out

There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

Being at sea is like watching the whole world in high-definition.

Given my calling I had to stumble across people who felt the same way. I was a young reporter.

The power of laughter & love would beat out the power of fear every time.

Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea.

Real quality means making sure that people are proud of the code they write, that they're involved and taking it personally.

When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.