Line is the most powerful device of drawing.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

When you open your heart to someone, you're also exposing it to pain.

The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.

I studied Tom Cruise running in all the Mission Impossibles. I think he's one of the best screen runners.

A man can seem to have many friends yet know little of friendship.

Data are just summaries of thousands of stories - tell a few of those stories to help make the data meaningful.

Only self-educated is educated. Others are merely taught.

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

At the age of 16, something happened with my finger and the doctor told me, you never can be a organist or pianist, so think about what you do with music.

If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever.