Renoir had not only a great interest in human character, in human feeling, but had also a great love for the people he painted.

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.

When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly

A positive mind-set says that you are not a victim to the whims of others or by circumstances over which you have no control.

There is a possibility of economic growth through honesty and truth.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

I think the best teachers had a real interest in the subject they were teaching and a love for children.

Fixable but unfixed bad performance is bad character and tends to create more of itself, causing more damage to the excuse giver with each tolerated instance.

At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

The hedges are spruting like chicks from the eggs when they are newly hatched or as the vulgar says clacked.

In the spring or summer, I like going to the Hamptons or Fire Island. Anywhere I can hear waves, I'm there.