Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

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.

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.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

Love gives with its eyes closed

Music is exciting and easy to enjoy, the rhythm and voice.It does not need interpretation. That is why it is called the Universal Language.

Putting in effort is like riding a bicycle on train tracks, you will get to where you want to go but you will feel every bump along the way.

You know, sloth is a sin, " he says softly. "I prefer to think of it as an adorable animal.

All Democrats for the last 30 years have tried to stimulate the economy by giving 'tax cuts' to people who don't pay taxes.

I want my legacy to be greater freedom, greater prosperity and a better way of life for my family, our employees and all Americans. And I wish the same for every nation on earth.

One by one I drowned all the people I’d been.

Play is the highest expression of human development in childhood for it alone is the free expression of what is in a child's soul.

The greatest part of what we say and do is really unnecessary. If a man takes this to heart, he will have more leisure and less uneasiness.