Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.

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’m sorry that I don’t like your tattoos.”I walked away. I walked back to him. “I mean that I don’t like tattoos, not just your tattoos. I like your skin, though.”I walked away.

When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

Big government squashes the human spirit

Being a Christan is less about cautiously avoiding sin than about courageously and actively doing God's will.

A big man is one who makes us feel bigger when we are with him.

The genuine priest always feels something higher than compassion.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

I dreamt of being like Ronaldo and Ronaldinho Gaucho.

We're going to prevent politics from abusing the parliament and going off playing politics around the country when they should be here at work.

Grant stood by me when I was crazy.