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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Mal snickered. "What's so funny?""I just pictured the Darkling being cornered by a sweaty duchess trying to have her way with him.

I wanted to break you. I never expected you to like it.

The only thing that keeps me going, is the desire to get away as far as possible.

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.

Were there no desire there would be no virtue, and because one man desires what another does not, who shall say whether the child of his desire be Vice or Virtue?

The Internet is really about highly specialized information, highly specialized targeting.

Chemistry, in its application to animals and vegetables. Endeavours jointly with physiology to enlighten us respecting the mysterious processes and sources of organic life.

Some people think it's naive to think we can make love our new bottom line. What I believe is naive is thinking human civilization as we know it will survive another two hundred years if we do not.

The one's who were mean to me are now nice to me.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.