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

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.

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

Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you thatmakes you want to live. And when you’ve found it, hold on to it with onehand, and use the other to claw your way back home.-Ripple

You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary

I want to remember it all, the good times and the bad times, the late nights, the boozing, the dancing into dawns, and all the great and not-so-great people I met and loved in those years.

If I get into a car on a circuit, I drive as fast as I can; that's it!

I do not believe that since man was in the habit of living on this planet anyone has ever lived possessed of the impudence of Jay Gould.

You can pay people to teach, But you can't pay them to care.

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

Utilitarianism condones killing of innocent human beings, even murder, if it makes the world a better place.

I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have been politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy.