The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

Walking away ends a battle in the heart of one, and starts a war in the soul of another.

Only when you connect with yourself do you interact with the beyond.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

Our very essence is Absolute Consciousness; without an I, without the consciousness of every individual, nothing really exists.

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

I find it difficult enough as it is to keep some kind of normality in my life. I enjoy this experience, but I don't know where I'm going to take my career.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

The world doesn't need another Dell or Compaq.

Theatre critics have no special access to the truth. And there should be no objective truth to art.