Those who cannot begin do not finish.

Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.

A work of art is the trace of a magnificent struggle.

Good composition is like a suspension bridge - each line adds strength and takes none away.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.

Do whatever you do intensely.

The sketch hunter moves through life as he finds it, not passing negligently the things he loves, but stopping to know them, and to note them down in the shorthand of his sketchbook.

Do not let the fact that things are not made for you, that conditions are not as they should be stop you. Go on anyway. Everything depends on those who go on anyway.

Pretend you are dancing or singing a picture. A worker or painter should enjoy his work, else the observer will not enjoy it.

Let every student enter the school with this advice. No matter how good the school is, his education is in his own hands. All education must be self education.

Give people the chance to change.

Thanks to my art, I now know who I am.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.

While every body wants it, most don't want to give it.

Ask any human being alive if they're the same person they were seven years ago and they're going to tell you they aren't.

Death is the mother of beauty.

What makes things memorable is that they are meaningful, significant, colorful.

Shoot what you see, not what you think.

College campuses were once a hotbed of political activity.