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.

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.

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.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.

I don't think there's ever been a moment in history where that, as an artistic message, has played very well, because people in their hearts know that's terrible and a lie.

As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and won with thanks.

It's unacceptable that consumers are punished on their telephone bill simply for crossing a border.

To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.