There is a better chance of getting an exciting painting from a laboured study with texture than from a fine drawing without it.

Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

Consistency is the quality of a stagnant mind.

When you draw a crowd of people in a street or room or landscape, decide whether you want to say that the people dominate the place or that the place is more important than the people.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

Artists are the only people in the world who really live. The others have to hope for heaven.

Art is the response of the living to life. It is therefore the record left behind by civilization.

The purpose of subject matter is to veil technique. The great artist uses the cloak of resemblance to hide the means.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody.

Originality is a quality that cannot be imitated. The technique of the language, on the other hand, is something that belongs to all who can understand it.

...within invisible walls of dreams, we live a life that might have been...

One of life's great truths is this: when one is about to be struck by a speeding six-hundred pound Coke machine, one need worry about little else.

When they told me I couldn't sit on the Senate floor with an iPad - that the technology wasn't even permitted - I breathed deep and knew that I was going to have to start pushing.

I have been in the business long enough to know what an intense amount of work it takes to operate a theater company.

... and we will test you with evil and with good; and unto us shall ye be brought back.

Don't focus on what's wrong. Things may not be perfect, but be grateful for the opportunity to experience each day. Live each day like it could be your last.

all stories are like those about the creation of the universe, no one was there, no one witnessed anything, yet everyone knows what happened.

Running a company is pretty demanding.

Of all the vulgar arts of government, that of solving every difficulty that might arise by thrusting the hand into the public purse is the most illusory and contemptible.

Originality is a concept possible only to a limited viewpoint.