The artist should have a powerful will. He should be powerfully possessed by one idea

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.

Fiction just makes it all more interesting. Truth is so boring.

Dance is medicine. Movement is potent. Empower yourself with it today.

Passion in every word I wrote, passion in every single thought.

...and that, in the end, the most interesting people always leave.

Life isn't just a gift, it's an abundant series of more gifts (i.e. Feather Presents) than one can count

I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.

I usually get up at 3 A.M. I don't require a lot of sleep, and if I get tired, I'll take a powernap during the day.

Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening

I think, as a woman, you do sort of have to work twice as hard, but I don't feel as if I wasn't given opportunities.

There's a big difference between motivation and inspiration: Inspire through values and motivation takes care of itself.