Realize that a drawing is not a copy. It is a construction in very different materials. A drawing is an invention.

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.

I'm tired of this back-slappin' "isn't humanity neat" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes.

I am a supporter of the state of Israel.

The only inequalities that matter begin in the mind. It is not income levels but differences in mental equipment that keep people apart, breed feelings of inferiority.

Us as rappers underestimate the power and effects that we have on these kids

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

To me a great sci-fi movie has elements of horror and suspense.

The buildings ... had suffered the inevitable shrinkage of places revisited.

The only way you're going to be successful is if you admit what you don't know and you ask for help.

Death, in its silent sure march is fast gathering those whom I have longest loved, so that when he shall knock at my door, I will more willingly follow.

We have our own language. Christianese... We don't say 'He's out of his mind,' no, we say 'That's our youth pastor.