Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

No hay felicidad más grande que la que sientes al ayudar a los demás.

BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!

Christ in a Pinata' how have I over complicated the plot?

Now, at last, she understood her great attraction to him. Here was the companion of her spirit. Here, indeed, was love.

Writing a full length novel is very much like driving a car with snakes in your pants—you just never know what’s going to happen. -- James Scott Bell

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

It is no use running; to set out betimes is the main point.

Good publishers – as one former publisher aptly put it – are market-makers in a world where it is attention, not content, that is scarce.

No one may forsake their neighbors when they are in trouble. Everybody is under obligation to help and support their neighbors as they would themselves like to be helped.

The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.