It seems to me that before a man tries to express anything to the world he must recognize in himself an individual, a new one, very distinct from others.

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.

Your greatest wildernesses lead you to your greatest Promised Lands.

The courage of a soldier is found to be the cheapest and most common quality of human nature.

One bright and thankful look at the cross is worth a thousand morbid, self-condemning reflections.

It is one thing to believe in justification by faith, it is another thing to be justified by faith.

One good thing about my computer: it never asks why.

I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

In my mother's day, she didn't go to college. Not a lot of women did. Now for every two men who get a college degree, three women will do the same.

You may have trouble getting permission to aero or lithobrake asteroids on Earth.

When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, "Action," and which was the second, he replied, "action," and which was the third, he still answered "Action.

Do you remember when you told me I couldn't see myself clearly? You obviously have the same blindness