Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture.

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.

…Our sunsets have been reduced to wavelengths and frequencies. The complexities of the universe have been shredded into mathematical equations. Even our self-worth as human beings has been destroyed.

No friendship is an accident.

Many people see a brick wall as an obstacle, when it's really a how to for success. You build both, one brick at a time.

We are inscrutable even to ourselves, I suppose.

The only reason you would want your currency to fall, if you could control it, is in order to get more exports.

There is now a $5 million dollar bounty on Osama bin Laden. Which marks the first time in history there has ever been a bounty on a guy's head who wears Bounty on his head.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

The bulldozer and not the atomic bomb may turn out to be the most destructive invention of the 20th century.

I never thought... that someone liked me... not like a demon... not like a half-demon... not even like human... just like... just like me!" -Inuyasha

Brunch, for me, is an extended breakfast that should be enjoyed whenever you have time properly to engage in cooking and eating.