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

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.

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.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

I owe most of my wisdom to the problems I was gifted.

I was a very sad little girl.

The displacement of scripted series by reality programming continues to be a severe obstacle to a working actor's ability to earn a living.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

I think we'll see a leveling off and then a contraction of population, not a continued upward trend.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Long ago they lowered insane persons into snake pits; they thought that an experience that might drive a sane person out of his wits might send an insane person back to sanity.

I'm the computer operator for Operation Rescue National.