The most vital things in the look of a landscape endure only for a moment. Work should be done from memory; memory of that vital moment.

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.

But I was not in the band, because I suffer from the kind of tone deafness that is generally associated with actual deafness

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On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

You can’t really, truly love a thing. Love is only possible between beings or groups of beings. Love of a thing doesn’t work because it can’t love back.

I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.

People as well as nations perish without scriptures. The scriptures are spiritual food for our spirit, which is just as important as physical food for our body.

Supervision is an opportunity to bring someone back to their own mind, to show them how good they can be.

Childhood is what you spend the rest of your life trying to overcome.

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

Self-interest, be it enlightened, works indirectly for the public good.