Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke.

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.

Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally

Do not depend on good motivator!Find your words of self-motivation!

The courage of the Syrian protesters is remarkable, for they face prison, torture, or death every time they lift a banner.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

Human life is inherently creative. It's why we all have different résumés. … It's why human culture is so interesting and diverse and dynamic.

This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl.

A fist is more than the sum of its fingers.

Just because you're good at something, does that mean you're born to do it?

One has to strive for a very open liberal society.