You are not to think of painting as something separate from drawing.

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.

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

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.

Nothing can be more destructive to ambition, and the passion for conquest, than the true system of astronomy. What a poor thing is even the whole globe in comparison of the infinite extent of nature!

Decorating is a footnote to real life for me, a means to an end: Living well.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

I’m trying to accept where I’m at, not run from it.

If what passed as nonviolence does not enable people to protect the honour of women, or if it does not enable women to protect their own honour, it is not nonviolence.

In the empty heart, void of self can be heard the echoing cry, "I am the Truth." Thus is man one with the eternal. Travelling, travel and traveller have become one.

Let's just shoot in black and white. Don't explain why. Have no reason for it. Just do it because it's interesting.

He hadn't a cent in his pocket, but he had faith !

Never, ever underestimate your readers. Everything you do registers.