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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you hold a cat by the tail, you learn things you can't learn any other way.--Mark Twain

....But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you.

Being faithful doesn’t mean you are fearless. It just means that your faith is greater than your fear.

We're not running out of [fixed] targets. Afghanistan is.

Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise.

What they teach you in school doesn't prepare you for life. Textbooks don't compare to living in the real world. Rock and roll teaches you how to live.

Science is the knowledge of constant things, not merely of passing events, and is properly less the knowledge of general laws than of existing facts.

It don't take a lot to make me happy. I'm not spoiled like that.

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.