To have ideas one must have imagination. To express ideas one must have science.

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.

Saying that you are moral because you believe in a god is like saying you are an economist because you play monopoly.

CHANGE YOUR MIND IT WILL CHANGE YOU LIFE - CHANGE IS GOOD

I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.

I always say that I'm really inspired by mistakes and things that kind of go wrong.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

The most important thing in anyone's life is to be giving something. The quality I can give is fun, joy and happiness. This is my gift.

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

I always wanted to be different. I always wanted to be first.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.

What I really search for is something that I really love hearing, something that's my own private game: If I find a song I really like, I try to do a definitive version.