Paint like a fiend when the idea possesses you.

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.

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.

Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than a book.

The biggest melon started off a small seed.

Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.

I have always loved locomotives passionately. For me they are living creatures and I love them as others love women or horses.

I think every cute girl is told to move to L.A. someday. So I do like the drive over from my house to the studio.

When you are falling --- Dive!

Let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Clothes allow you to see yourself in a different light. They can transform you instantly and have a very real, visceral impact. Clothes become symbolic of who we are.

The arts can open the door to the imagination, pushing the envelope of how peace can be created. It takes courage to take this kind of risk, and courage is what we all need to create a better world.