I paint for the sole purpose of magnifying the privilege of being alive.

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.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

To better handle grief, become the passenger, not the driver.

The power of encouragement is the grace of life.

I think doing 'Teen Wolf' is just giving me a really great opportunity to possibly get other jobs and show what I can do.

Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point.

Maybe you feel pressure to be positive because so many people rely on your good, fake-positive energy? If that's the case, screw everybody else. You're not a bottle of Valium.

History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

I've braved the red carpet when I didn't feel comfortable, and when I look at the pictures, it always shows!

And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.

Regardless, I decided to never take LSD again.