It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

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.

A willing spirit, diligently perform the sacred duty.

My dad was always playing music. Not, like, playing music but listening to music.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I have no clue why, but maybe sometimes when there's someone you don't hear from, it's the person you want to hear from the most.

I'm not going to be remotely funny.

There are definitely Dark Forces out there that none of us fully understand. People fear what they don't understand, and lash out against it

Only artists without talent try to shock people.

To persist in doing wrong extenuates not the wrong, but makes it much more heavy.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.