To learn to draw is to draw and draw and draw.

To any man who has slaved to acquire skill in his art, it is most irritating to have his ability referred to as a “gift.”

The difficulties of not knowing are always much greater than the effort of learning.

Observation and study are necessary to achieve mastery of light and form

It is ten per cent how you draw, and ninety per cent what you draw.

If you intend to make a living at drawing, by all means learn it [the rules of perspective] now, and do not have them bothering you and your work for the rest of your life.

Art without color would lose much of its purpose.

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

No "knack" of drawing heads can compete with sound knowledge.

There’s only one way to assure consistently good work. That is consistently thorough preparation.

Aren't maids the ultimate art critics?

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

The life of a mathematician is dominated by an insatiable curiosity, a desire bordering on passion to solve the problems he is studying.

Labor was marching toward the goal of industrial democracy and contributing constructively toward a more rational arrangement of our domestic economy.

When I say the word You, I mean a hundred universes.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

When you look at the basis for the immortality of the soul, you have these foundationless speculations and really, no intelligent reason for believing that there's life after death.

For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.