The big painter is one who has something to say. He thus does not paint men, landscape or furniture, but an 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.

Kill your darlings, kill your darlings, even when it breaks your egocentric little scribbler’s heart, kill your darlings.

I know where there is more wisdom than is found in Napoleon Voltaire or all the ministers present and to come - in public opinion.

I don't think the public here buy this idea that women and men speak different comedic languages.

In this job, there are some simple pleasures that really help you cope. One is books, I mean, books are a great escape. Books are a way to get your mind on something else.

Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall.

You scared of that pip-squeak? Dude, you got a lot to learn. Freakin' Newbies.

Women's voices aren't heard often enough. Congress should reflect the population, but with only 20 percent women in the Senate and 18 percent in the House, it just doesn't.

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Words, however, are things.

Carry yourself as one who will change the world, because you will.