Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

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.

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.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I am gone tomorrow. And there and gone again by the time you read this.

I was just confident my work was good.

I like to be like the old-school guys. They played hard, man, and they played from the heart. They didn't play to just get checks.

The lack of sweat to get a win is probably a record for me.

This book is dedicated to the rule breakers, the troublemakers, and the revolutionaries. Sometimes the hand that feeds you needs a good bite.

I write in order to express what the photo itself cannot say. A photograph of my father doesn't tell me what I thought of him, which for me is much more important than what the man looked like.

In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.

Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don’t quite know where it comes from.

I was always the type of person that whenever I started something I finished it. And, I was always held accountable for my actions.