The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

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.

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.

Art is an outsider, a gypsy over the face of the earth.

There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear... revenge.

Be kind, be fair and be just.

Where was my guardian angel when I needed him most? If only I knew.

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence.

No matter how famous the victim, no matter how powerful the advocates, it simply isn't always possible to control the conduct of other people.

If someone doesn't know their Old Testament, they don't know right doctrine, right correction, and they can't be equipped for good works.

I believe in myself. I believe in my vision, my life, my talent, my art. More than anyone. No one can take that away from me.

I wasn't good enough to be a professional soccer player obviously but that was my first goal in life.

Wayne's cool. I ran into him at my hangout back home, and he's just cool. I actually have this beat that I want him on, but I was too scared to get it to Clancy to get to them, but Wayne's cool.

Folks wanna be like Will I Am not Bill I Am. They wanna be like Stevie Wonder not Steve Jobs.