The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will beable to correct them.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Man can make only the rules. He cannot make the laws, which are the laws of nature. It is the understanding of these laws that enables a student to draw.

There is only one right way to draw... physical contact with all sorts of objects through all the senses.

You cannot govern the creative impulse; all you can do is eliminate obstacles and smooth the way for it.

Committing oneself to a technique causes stagnation.

To understand theory is not enough. Much practice is necessary.

You should draw not what the thing looks like, not even what it is, but what it is doing... Gesture has no precise edges, no forms. The forms are in the act of changing. Gesture is movement in space.

Art should be concerned more with life than with art.

Learning to draw is really a matter of learning to see - to see correctly - and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye.

There is no such thing as starting where Cezanne left off. You have to start where he started... at the beginning.

What is Love? It is a long followed companionship of two souls.

Darkness is a place that encourages us to seek light.

Eko brushed a tear from her eye, and Immo jeered at her, but father held up a hand. "Never mock a tender heart, " he said.

I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.

We do not want churches. They will teach us to quarrel about God.

Great talent stands in line to join your team because the culture becomes the stuff of legend.

When I am with composers, I say I am a conductor. When I am with conductors, I say I am a composer.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

But considering that I walked in expecting no complexity at all, let alone the visual wonderments, "Snow White and the Huntsman" is a considerable experience.

They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior