You are to draw not reality, but the appearance of reality!

The mission of art is to represent nature not to imitate her.

Don't talk of what you are 'going to do!' Do it!

Imagination comes in after we have experience.

Give up the idea of 'color' for awhile! Consider masses - values, only... One dark and one light place in every picture.

Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.

You can't do a fine thing without having seen fine examples.

Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work.

You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

Inspiration is nothing without work.

It's impossible to make a picture without values. Values are the basis. If they are not, tell me what is the basis.

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

I will finish what I have began.

The clown was an evil one. They’re either good or bad, and this one was definitely the latter.

Dancers aren't made of their technique, but their passion.

Charlie Huston, who showran the first season [of Powers], is a novelist, and likes to internalize fiction as a novelist does.

I knew Queen Elizabeth didn't do any laundry! I knew I wasn't going to be doing laundry. I was going to be singing.

There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.

I-I am going to be a storm-a flame- I need to fight whole armies alone; I have ten hearts; I have a hundred arms; I feel too strong to war with mortals- BRING ME GIANTS!

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

If you read Animal Farm, you know that humans traditionally forget the reason we have revolutions in the first place.