Has your drawing the meaning you saw in the model at first?

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.

It would not do to be Lord of a universe inhabited solely by serfs.

NY is the city it is today in part because of the contributions from generations of artistic visionaries

Shields Green was not one to shrink from hardships or dangers. He was a man of few words, and his speech was singularly broken; but his courage and self-respect made him quite a dignified character.

'Tis certain that our senses are extremely disproportioned for comprehending the whole compass and latitude of things.

Hope animates the wise, and lures the presumptuous and indolent who repose inconsiderately on her promises.

I wasn't a bad person who needed to become good...I was DEAD and needed to be brought to life! (Ephesians 2:1-10)

Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.

No man surely has so short a memory as the American.

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.