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.

You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

She lived in happy solitude, and grew old, and never worried when her beauty faded, for in her reflection she always saw a free woman.

I'd forgotten not all victories are about saving the universe.

Weirdly, the people complaining about the healthcare website not working after three weeks were quiet about the Iraq war not working after eight years.

Honorable battle sustains a Sacred Band.

I don't think we can win every game. Just the next one.

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

But the deep desire for peace remained with the American people.

Astrology is the Via Regia to the enchanted cosmos.

To be nonpartisan doesn't mean we're nonpolitical.

I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn.