The real artist's work is a surprise to himself.

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.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

I walked out of class one day and I never went back

Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job.

Distance is the Enemy of Awareness.

My technique, starting with a quick outline in pencil, is designed to record first impressions, with no time for second thoughts.

Truth is so great a perfection, that if God would render himself visible to men, he would choose light for his body and truth for his soul

If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

The Democrats can't lose on their own. There always has to be some trick.

Our survival depends on our ability to form trusting relationships.