Paint what you feel. Paint what you see. Paint what is real to 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.

Speak the truth do not become angered and give when asked, even be it a little. By these three conditions one goes to the presence of the gods.

God's great Law is spiritual.

For though your mind is active enough, your heart is darkened with corruption, and without a pure heart there can be no full or genuine sensibility.

O: Hey youngman, you should respect me!Y: Hey oldman, you should understand me!

Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

There is apparently an epidemic of tinnitus in younger people. Tinnitus is ringing in the ears and it can be disabling. Tinnitus is associated with cellphone use.

I do have a peripatetic and active intellectual curiosity.

There is not some glorious theoretical synthesis of capitalism that you can write down in a book and follow. You have to grope your way

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

On an unconscious level, the demonization of sexuality usually implies the demonization of males and the victimization of females.