Educate yourself. Don't let me educate 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.

In every end is the seed of a new beginning...water it well

We can only love what we know, and we can never know completely what we do not love. Love is a mode of knowledge

Surrounded yourself with brilliant people. You can't HELP but grow when that happens.

The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us to third. Damn you, Finland!

I think the president is a racist.

This is a people shooting hat," I said. "I shoot people in this hat.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

One who believes in himself has no need to convince others.

Time is not a thing that passes ... it's a sea on which you float.

The bubble hasn't popped yet and there's tremendous value in social media. ... But it's wishful thinking to believe that others on the 'me too' bandwagon will survive.