Many things that come into the world are not looked into. The individual says 'My crowd doesn't run that way.' I say, don't run with crowds.

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.

It was a bad idea to play chicken with someone who'd known you your whole life. Nobody came out a winner.

your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky

There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

It's easy to tell who the folks are that don't believe in evolution. They're the ones who have refused to participate in it.

I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

Open offices keep everyone in tune with what is going on and keep the energy up. If an employee is about privacy, show him or her how to use the lock on the bathroom.

I approach every problem with optimism.

Prosperity getteth friends, but adversity trieth them.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.