Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

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.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

for though life can have its unspeakable tragedies, there is simply too much joy out there for those who'd seek it.

what is not true does not exist in this moment.

Making out with Marcus had always felt like a race to the finish line, but with Diego I felt like I'd already won.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

Animals have few rights, but they have every right to be here

The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain that their neglect would be forgiven.

When you see what some women marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.

History will tell where I stand in the ranks of Bond villains, I have no control over that.

There's a constant flow of child actors. It's kind of funny to watch the new crew come through. I think, You poor little things. You're going to have to struggle for a long time.